Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “The humanitarian toll of President Putin`s war on Ukraine is mounting. Children are dying. People are fleeing their…”

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.

They have been isolated in the international community. And this is a desperate action by a country that does not have confidence in itself.

It’s very difficult to take any of the five permanent members with veto rights over anything that goes on in the Security Council, it’s hard to get them off.

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