The Obama administration told China on Thursday that its approach for dealing with North Korea had “not worked”, as Congress readied a new round of sanctions on the regime in Pyongyang that could hit Chinese banks.
A day after North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test, John Kerry, US secretary of state, raised diplomatic pressure on China, saying that Beijing could not “continue business as usual” with its ally in Pyongyang.
“China had a particular approach that it wanted to take and we agreed to give them the space to be able to implement that, but today . . . I made it very clear that has not worked,” Mr Kerry said about a phone call on Thursday with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi.
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