Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Friday that the draft resolution agreed to by the United States and China on expanding sanctions against North Korea for its latest nuclear test and rocket launch reflects Japan's call for stringent U.N. action.
U.S. diplomats on Thursday submitted the draft to the United Nations Security Council after reaching an agreement with their counterparts from China, the North's biggest economic partner. According to news reports, the document for North Korea calls for a ban on imports of aviation fuel and an export ban on commodities such as gold, titanium, coal and iron ore.
After North Korea provoked the international community by conducting a nuclear test, which Pyongyang claimed was its first hydrogen bomb, the U.S. and Chinese diplomats took almost a month and half to reach the agreement.