US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today said that a UN Security Council vote to impose sanctions on North Korea showed that world powers were united behind a push for a denuclearised Korean peninsula.<br/>Speaking at a security forum in Manila, Washington's senior diplomat said Kim Jong-Un's regime must halt ballistic missile tests if it wanted to talk to the United States about resolving the existing impasse.<br/>Yesterday, Tillerson held separate talks in Manila with foreign ministers Wang Yi of China and Sergei Lavrov of Russia, both of whom he said were in support of a tough stance on Pyongyang's arsenal.<br/>While Wang called for a resumption of dialogue with North Korea, Tillerson insisted Kim must first stop the missile tests.<br/>The UN Security Council on Saturday approved a US-drafted sanctions package against North Korea that could cost it 1 billion US dollar a year in an effort to halt its nuclear weapons and missile programmes. This was in response to the North Korea's conducting two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.<br/><br/><br/><br/>

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson today said that a UN Security Council vote to impose sanctions on North Korea showed that world powers were united behind a push for a denuclearised Korean peninsula.<br/>Speaking at a security forum in Manila, Washington's senior diplomat said Kim Jong-Un's regime must halt ballistic missile tests if it wanted to talk to the United States about resolving the existing impasse.<br/>Yesterday, Tillerson held separate talks in Manila with foreign ministers Wang Yi of China and Sergei Lavrov of Russia, both of whom he said were in support of a tough stance on Pyongyang's arsenal.<br/>While Wang called for a resumption of dialogue with North Korea, Tillerson insisted Kim must first stop the missile tests.<br/>The UN Security Council on Saturday approved a US-drafted sanctions package against North Korea that could cost it 1 billion US dollar a year in an effort to halt its nuclear weapons and missile programmes. This was in response to the North Korea's conducting two intercontinental ballistic missile tests last month.<br/><br/><br/><br/>