China announced on Thursday that they are against the sanctions the United States imposed on North Korea, saying that it could worsen the ongoing international tension. 

The unilateral isolation sanctions against North Korea was placed by US President Barack Obama on Wednesday after a series of deliberations and meetings with allied countries. The agreement isolates North Korea and its leaders after their recent testing of nuclear war weapons which was seen as dangerous and provocative by the United States and its allies. 

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The sanctions came after North Korea conducted nuclear tests on January 6, 2016 and February 7,2016. One of the rockets is said to carry a banned missile technology.

During a press conference in China on Thursday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang was asked if China was worried about the secondary sanctions that includes the freezing of assets of anyone or any country that will break the isolation sanction that was placed against North Korea.

"First, as I have said many times before China opposes to any isolation sanction placed against any country and not just North Korea, with regards to the secondary sanction, it is something that we are studying and looking further into," Kang said. 

"We already also clearly expressed many times during meetings with the relevant country that any so-called unilateral sanction imposed against them by any country does not affect or harm our reasonable interests," Kang added.

China is widely known as the one of the few allies of North Korea but has also widely expressed that it is against the latter's nuclear testing. It also expressed its hopes what North Korea be a nuclear free country soon. 

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