US President Barack Obama has vowed to work with the UN to tighten international sanctions against North Korea, a day after Pyongyang launched another round of ballistic missiles into the sea.
“We are going to work together to make sure we’re closing loopholes and make them even more effective,” Obama told reporters on Tuesday after meeting with South Korean President Park Geun-hye in Laos at a summit of the the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Obama said the latest launches of ballistic missiles during the G20 summit in China were provocative and that the country needed to know such actions would increase its isolation in the world.
However, the president added that Washington was still open to dialogue if Pyongyang changes its policy.
“If (North Korea) is willing to recognize its international obligations and enforce the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, the opportunities for us to dialogue with them are there,”…