NATO Chief Says All States Must Apply Sanctions to North Korea

NATO head Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday all countries must comply with sanctions on North Korea as the international community ratchets up pressure on the reclusive regime following its largest nuclear test to date, writes New Europe. 

Asked if he was worried that Russia was resisting stepping up U.N. Security Council sanctions on North Korea, Stoltenberg told reporters before meeting the European Union’s defensc ministers:

“There are already sanctions agreed in the UN and it is extremely important that those sanctions are fully implemented.”
At the same time, all 29 member countries’ ambassadors to NATO issued the statement as world powers sought a common response to North Korea’s sixth and largest nuclear bomb test, amid fears that more were on their way.

“It is now imperative that all nations implement more thoroughly and transparently existing UN sanctions and make further efforts to apply decisive pressure to convince the DPRK regime to abandon its current threatening and destabilizing path,” the statement read, referring to North Korea’s official name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

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