Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has said that she will work with China to address the North Korea nuclear threat if she gets elected as the next president of the United States, vowing to make this her top priority.

Jake Sullivan, Clinton's policy adviser, said Pyongyang's nuclear programme remains a 'security challenge' for the US and the Korean peninsula as he presented the objectives that would underscore Clinton's foreign policies if she becomes the next president.

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"It will have to be right at the top of the agenda for the next president to deal with. There is a possibility for the United States and China to cooperate on the North Korea issue effectively," he said.

Sullivan's statements were made amid North Korea's defiance of a series of economic sanctions imposed by the United Nations in its latest resolution against the isolated state.

Indifferent

Pyongyang appears to be indifferent to the sanctions as it continues to conduct missile tests and rocket launches including a submarine-launched ballistic missile and intermediate range ballistic missile test conducted recently.

Despite hard negotiations led by Beijing and Washington to come up with harsher sanctions against Pyongyang, the current sanctions seem not to be affecting North Korea as it was intended.

Sullivan said that North Korea's ballistic missile tests not only jeopardize the security interests of the Pyongyang's neighbors but also those of Japan and the US.

"It is hard for me to underscore how important it is that we place priority on this, that we place urgency behind this nuclear threat," he emphasized.

Agenda

Sullivan pointed out that North Korea's nuclear threat is first and foremost the most important issue on the agenda that should be addressed by Chinese President Xi Jinping and the next US president in their first meeting.

He said that more should be done by both nations to curb Pyongyang's nuclear programme despite some progress that has already been made by Beijing and Washington. 

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