Haley cited ‘unpredictable’ Trump in sanctions gambit

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s United Nations ambassador used the threat of the US invading North Korea to pass sanctions against the rogue state.

Nikki Haley (right) told her Chinese counterpart that Mr Trump was “kind of unpredictable” as she sought to secure votes in the UN Security Council.

Harper’s magazine said Ms Haley looked back to September 2 last year when North Korea had just launched its sixth nuclear test.

She told the Council for Na- tional Policy in Washington, a group of powerful conservatives, that she was trying to secure abstentions from Russia and China on a UN Security Council vote to bring sanctions against the communist nation, otherwise they would veto it.

“I said to the Russians: ‘Either you’re with North Korea or you’re with the United States of America’,” Ms Haley said.

Turning to the Chinese ambassador to the UN, she raised the prospect of a military invasion of North Korea.

“My boss is kind of unpredictable and I don’t know what he’ll do,” Ms Haley said.

A watered-down version of the sanctions against North Korea was eventually passed by the Security Council after China vetoed an earlier one.