US urges China to take 'action' against N Korea

The United States will "put pressure" on China to take action against North Korea's nuclear weapons program, the US ambassador to the United Nations said yesterday, days before a high profile visit by China's president.

"The only country that can stop North Korea is China and they know that," Ambassador Nikki Haley told ABC in an interview. "We're going to continue to put pressure on China to have action."

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Chinese President Xi Jinping is scheduled to meet Donald Trump on April 6 and 7 at the US president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida for their first face-to-face encounter.

It is being held amid rocky US-China relations over North Korea's nuclear and missile programs, trade and other issues.

On Thursday, Trump predicted a "very difficult" summit, noting the disputes over trade policy between the world's two most powerful nations and leading economies.

But Haley emphasized that at the Florida summit "the most important conversation will be how we're going to be dealing with the nonproliferation of North Korea."