North Korea has responded to criticism from a US ambassador by calling her a “prostitute” who is “swishing her skirt”. “She is crazily swishing her skirt, playing the flagship role in Trump administration’s hideous sanctions and pressure racket,” the state-run Korean Central News Agency said of Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley. The agency added: “Nikki should be careful with her tongue though she might be a blind fool. The US administration will have to pay a dear price for her tongue-lashing.” After North Korea’s sixth nuclear test, Mrs Haley accused Kim’s tyrannical regime of “begging for war” and called for the UN Security Council to impose stricter sanctions on the hermit kingdom. At a UN Security Council meeting, she said: “We have taken an incremental approach, and despite the best of intentions, it has not worked.” Ms Haley pressed the Security Council to impose even stricter sanctions, on top of the estimated $1bn in sanctions they imposed against the country last month. “Enough is enough,” Ms Haley said at the meeting. “We have taken an incremental approach, and despite the best of intentions, it has not worked.” Ms Haley is pushing for an oil embargo on North Korea, as well as a ban on its exports of textiles and the hiring of North Korean workers, according to a draft resolution obtained by Reuters. Even China, the North’s largest ally, has agreed that the UN must take more action. Last week, North Korea conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear test, describing it as an advanced hydrogen bomb for a long-range missile. Donald Trump has warned Kim Jong-un he will regret forcing the US to take military action against North Korea. The US President has refused to rule out a strike against the reclusive state as tensions between Pyongyang and Washington reach boiling point.
