Nations to Consider More North Korea Sanctions

Nations to Consider More North Korea Sanctions
South Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Kang Kyung-wha, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland attend the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on the Korean Peninsula in Vancouver, Canada January 16, 2018. Reuters/Ben Nelms
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VANCOUVER—Twenty nations agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned there must be “new consequences” to any new acts of aggression.

A U.S.-hosted meeting of countries that backed South Korea during the 1950-53 Korea War also vowed to support renewed dialogue between the two Koreas “in hopes that it leads to sustained easing of tensions” and agreed that a diplomatic solution to the crisis was both essential and possible.