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Pompeo expressed frustration at a UN meeting on Thursday that some countries were not strictly adhering to sanctions on Pyongyang, an important part of the US strategy to dismantle its nuclear and missile programs.
"It is imperative that UN members take this to heart," said Pompeo about the need to keep up the pressure. "The implementation of United Nations Security Council sanctions must continue vigorously and without fail until we achieve full, final and verified denuclearization." example and we must all hold each other accountable. "
But at the same meeting, the representatives of Russia and China repelled Pompeo, asking the United States to make concessions or to give up their efforts to maintain the sanctions.
"A timely declaration of an end to war … would help build basic trust, further facilitate denuclearization and put in place [conditions] for a final peace agreement, "said Wang Yi.
"According to China, a political and wise decision must be made".
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the measures taken by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, including the dismantling of nuclear sites and the cessation of weapons and missile testing, should be eased.
"It is unacceptable that sanctions against the DPRK become an instrument of collective punishment," Lavrov said, according to UN translators. "In a context of Pyongyang's willingness to cooperate, this seems inappropriate and untimely when our Western partners imposed tougher sanctions on Pyongyang."
Pompeo described some of the sanctions violations that the United States was aware of. He noted that North Korea had violated the United Nations-imposed oil import ceiling through smuggling and that its coal exports, which finance its arms programs, continue.
He also noted that some members of the Security Council were violating a UN resolution that banned the use of North Korean workers, a possible reference to Russia and China, who both used a large number of North Korean workers in the past.
"The United States is disturbed by recent reports that member states, including members of the Security Council, are welcoming new North Korean workers," said Pompeo. "It violates the spirit and the letter of the Security Council resolutions that we all agreed to respect."
Pompeo said that the United States and North Korea were "well engaged in a diplomatic process and we hope, we hope, to achieve this result." Pompeo said that he would visit "Pyongyang next month to meet President Kim and speed up this process."
The Russian ambassador to the UN denied the prosecution and said that Haley had made an "emotional statement".
In his speech to the General Assembly, Trump praised Kim, said that great progress had been made with North Korea and insisted that sanctions against Pyongyang would remain in effect until the denuclearization of the country.
"I would like to thank President Kim for his courage and for the actions he has taken, but much remains to be done," said the president. "Sanctions will remain in place until denuclearization," he said.
