Beijing, Dec. 25 (TNS): China has asked the world community for constructive efforts to ease tensions over North Korean nuclear crisis in the wake of fresh economic sanctions.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying speaking in Beijing on Monday also called for the use of peaceful means to resolve the issue.
The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from workers abroad.
The U.S.-drafted resolution also caps crude oil supplies to North Korea at 4 million barrels a year and commits the Council to further reductions if it were to conduct another nuclear test or launch another intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
North Korea on Sunday rejected the resolution, calling it an act of war.
