美国参议员克里说，中国将支持联合国安理会针对北韩采取行动，并同意北韩必须为本星期进行的核试验承担责任。
克里星期四在北京对记者说，他确信中国在国际社会对北韩核试验做出反应的努力中将发挥建设性作用。
克里说，中国外交部长杨洁篪在一次会晤中对他说，中国将支持做出慎重的反应。目前联合国正在纽约就如何做出反应进行磋商。
克里是美国国会参议院外交关系委员会主席，他本星期在中国会晤中国官员。
中国一直主张对北韩采用谨慎的外交手段。北韩政权垮台可能导致数以百万计的北韩难民涌入中国。
联合国外交官星期三说，安理会的主要大国承诺扩大对北韩的制裁。
外交官说，联合国安理会5个常任理事国以及日本和韩国正在考虑进行旅行和经济制裁、扩大武器禁运、加强货运检查以及冻结北韩在国外的资产。
U.S. Senator John Kerry says China will support United Nations Security Council action on North Korea and agrees it must face the consequences of this week’s nuclear test.
Speaking Thursday with journalists in Beijing, Kerry says he is confident China will be “a constructive player” in international efforts to respond to North Korea’s nuclear test.
Kerry says China’s Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told him in a meeting that China would support a measured response that is being negotiated at the U.N. in New York.
Kerry heads the U.S. Senate’s Foreign Relations Committee and is in China this week meeting with officials.
China has always favored cautious diplomacy with North Korea. The regime’s collapse could potentially send millions of North Korean refugees streaming over the border.
On Wednesday, U.N. diplomats said key powers on the Security Council were committed to broadening sanctions against North Korea.
Diplomats say the five permanent members of the council (the U.S., Britain, France, China and Russia) plus Japan and South Korea are considering travel and financial sanctions, a broader arms embargo, tougher inspections of cargo, and a freeze on North Korean assets abroad.