US Seeking to Impose New Sanctions on North Korea If Regime Goes Ahead With Nuclear Tests

US Seeking to Impose New Sanctions on North Korea If Regime Goes Ahead With Nuclear Tests
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at a briefing in New York City on March 1, 2021. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Naveen Athrappully
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Despite opposition from China and Russia, the United States stated on May 31 that it would push for new United Nations sanctions on North Korea if the communist regime conducts a nuclear test.

U.S. officials, along with counterparts from South Korea and Japan, have voiced concern regarding a potential nuclear test by the North Korean regime. It would be the country’s first nuclear test in nearly five years and seventh nuclear test overall.