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US Says NKorea ’Begging For War’, Calls For Strongest Possible Sanctions

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At an urgent UN security meeting, US envoy Nikki Haley warned ‘enough is enough' after North Korea's sixth and largest nuclear test.

Haley warned that North Korea is "begging for war" and urged the UN Security Council to impose the toughest sanctions possible on the isolated dictatorship.

The blunt statement by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, came as Donald Trump spoke with South Korean president Moon Jae-in and agreed that the North's latest nuclear test was an "unprecedented" provocation.

North Korea carried out its sixth and by far most powerful nuclear test on Sunday. The underground blast triggered a magnitude 6.3 tremor and was more powerful than the bombs dropped by the US on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War.

"Enough is enough," said Haley, noting that an approach of incremental sanctions since 2006 had not worked.

"The time for half measures in the security council is over. The time has come to exhaust all of our diplomatic means before it's too late."

Haley said her country would circulate a resolution this week with the aim of getting it approved next Monday and, in a thinly veiled jab at China, said the US would target countries trading with Pyongyang, a prospect also raised by Trump on Sunday.

"The United States will look at every country that does business with North Korea as a country, that is giving aid to their reckless and dangerous nuclear intentions," she said. "The stakes could not be higher."

She added: "Only the strongest sanctions will enable us to resolve this problem through diplomacy. We have kicked the can down the road long enough. There is no more road left."

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team