Anchor: Before the UN Security Council holds a meeting Tuesday to discuss how to respond to Pyongyang's latest missile launch, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said that the move is not conducive for talks and that her country will only tighten screws on North Korea. As the North repeatedly defies the international community, the European Union and NATO also issued statements, urging the North to change.
Alannah Hill has this report.

Report: U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley criticized North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test on Sunday, saying its leader Kim Jong-un is in a state of paranoia.
 
[Sound bite: U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (ABC News May. 14)]
"I think this was a message to South Korea after the election. And so what we're going to do is continue to tighten the screws."
 
Appearing on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, Ambassador Haley noted that the North's move in front of the newly inaugurated Moon Jae-in government in the South is not conducive for holding talks with the U.S. 
 
[Sound bite: U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley (ABC News May. 14)]
"Having a missile test is not the way to sit down with the president, because he's absolutely not going to do it... until he meets our conditions, we're not sitting down with him." 

Haley added the North’s missile program was “getting kind of close to home” for Russia and it is concerned.

Her comments came as the United Nations Security Council is due to hold an emergency session on Tuesday to discuss additional sanction measures against Pyongyang's repeated violation of its resolutions against the regime's ballistic missile tests. 

She said that the U.S. will do anything it has to, whether it’s more sanctions or press statements.
  
The UNSC first imposed sanctions on North Korea in 2006 and has intensified the measures as the regime defied the international organization's joint stance with five nuclear tests and two long-range rocket launches. 

In a statement Sunday, the EU spokesperson called on the North to halt these launches and abandon its nuclear weapons program.

NATO said in a statement issued by its spokesperson that this is a time that requires the easing of tensions, not provocation.
 
It said Pyongyang should cease all activities linked to its ballistic missile and nuclear programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner and engage in credible dialogue with the international community. 
Alannah Hill, KBS World Radio News. 

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