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The Security Council has imposed the toughest ever sanctions on North Korea, squeezing the flow of the defiant nation's economic lifeblood to punish it for its nuclear and missile tests.
US Permanent Representative Nikki Haley, who piloted Resolution 2371 on Saturday, called it "the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation".
The sanctions voted on Saturday seek to block North Korea's exports of coal, iron, iron ore, seafood and lead and prohibit countries from hiring any more of that country's citizens.
It also banned starting new joint ventures with North Korea or expanding existing ones.
Actions against North Korea gained renewed urgency after North Korea tested on 28 July a ballistic missile that experts say could reach major US cities.
The sanctions were a triumph for the US that came after Haley worked strenuously to get a reluctant Beijing to agree to further tightening the restrictions on Pyongyang.
Haley acknowledged that China had made "important contributions" for getting the sanctions voted and personally thanked its delegation.
The measures would be the seventh set of UN sanctions imposed on North Korea since it first carried out a nuclear test in 2006.
At a press conference earlier in the week, Liu had assigned Washington blame for the Korean missile crisis and opposed more sanctions against Pyongyang.
Washington had refused to hold talks with Pyongyang and took action and used language that escalated the tension in the region, he said.
China's emphasis on dialogue to deal with the situation was also echoed in the resolution, which called for resuming the Six-Party Talks involving the two Koreas, China, the US, Russia and Japan.
Both Russia and China pitched to the Security Council their joint 4 July proposal for a two-track approach to the North Korean crisis. It called for Pyongyang suspending nuclear and missile tests, while Washington stops major joint military exercises in the region.
Russia's Permanent Representative Vassily Alekseevich Nebenzia said there could be no progress as long as North Korea perceived a direct threat to its security from military exercises by the US and its regional allies and the deployment of the anti-ballistic missile system, Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD).
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