Ambassador Nikki Haley isn’t messing around on the issue of N. Korea since their ICBM test yesterday. She put it in stark terms at the UN a few minutes ago:
Amb. Haley at UN: "We have never sought war with North Korea, and still today we do not seek it" but "if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed."
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 29, 2017
Amb. Haley says that the US calls on "all nations to cut off all ties with North Korea" following latest missile test.
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 29, 2017
"Yesterday's missile launch was more advanced than previous launches. No one can doubt that this threat is growing."
She even levied a big threat directly at China:
Amb. Haley calls for China to do more with cutting of oil supplies to North Korea: "China can do this on its own, or we can take the oil situation into our own hands."
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 29, 2017
Amb. Haley says Pres. Trump called Chinese Pres. Xi this morning "and told him that we have come to the point that China must cut off the oil from North Korea."
— NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt (@NBCNightlyNews) November 29, 2017
When Haley says ‘we’ in the tweet above, it’s not clear to me whether she’s referring to the US or the entire UN Security Council. I believe it’s the latter, but I’ll leave that up for you to decide.
Here’s Haley’s full comments at the UN Security Council. The discussion about Chinese oil comes around the 7 minute mark.