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RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to use his first address to the UN General Assembly to call for a harder line on North Korea and Iran.
Trump “will speak in extremely tough terms about the North Korean menace and the threat it poses to our security and the security of all the nations in that room,” a senior White House official said of the September 19 speech during the annual General Debate at the UN General Assembly.
The UN Security Council has imposed several rounds of sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs. Pyongyang warned on September 18 that more sanctions and pressure will only make it accelerate its nuclear program.
The Chinese and Russian foreign ministers, Wang Yi and Sergei Lavrov, called for a peaceful end to what they termed a “vicious cycle” on the Korean Peninsula as they met in New York, China’s Foreign Ministry said on September 19.
Moscow and Beijing are calling for North Korea to stop its missile and nuclear tests in exchange for the United States and South Korea holding off on future large joint military drills.
Trump is also due to voice concern about Iran, which the U.S. administration accuses of violating of the “spirit” of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers and of interfering in the affairs of neighboring countries.
