Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “I take it as a personal commitment that I will work diligently to improve those numbers.”

We are prepared to have an open dialogue with the North Koreans without preconditions. We want to pursue diplomacy.

So, we don`t want to treat them, even though they are a permanent member of the security council, they are not behaving with the responsibility that we would expect of a permanent member of the Security Council.

We have held the doors open for meaningful diplomacy and we remain open to dialogue, real productive dialogue without preconditions.

But we have used the Security Council, we have used the General Assembly to isolate Russia, to condemn Russia, to kick Russia off of the Human Rights Council.