China’s foreign minister warned his North Korean counterpart that the situation on the Korean Peninsula was close to “crisis point”, a day after the UN unanimously voted for its strongest economic sanctions yet against Pyongyang.
Hours later, the South Korean president requested a phone call with US President Donald Trump on Sunday night, in which the White House said both leaders affirmed that North Korea posed “a grave and growing direct threat to the United States, South Korea, and Japan”.
The White House said Mr Trump and Mr Moon welcomed the new UN resolution and “committed to fully implement all relevant resolutions and to urge the international community to do so as well”.