US President Donald Trump, who complained last month that Moscow was "not helping us at all with North Korea," has told Russian President Vladimir Putin that more needs to be done to scrap Pyongyang's nuclear program, the White House says.
"President Trump reiterated the importance of taking further steps to ensure the denuclearisation of North Korea," the White House said in a statement about the call with Putin.
Moscow denies it has failed to uphold UN sanctions.
Last year, North Korea conducted dozens of missile launches and its sixth and largest nuclear test in defiance of the resolutions.
Russia signed on to the latest rounds of United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea imposed last year, including a ban on coal exports, which are an important source of the foreign currency Pyongyang needs to fund its nuclear program.
But North Korea shipped coal to Russia at least three times last year after the ban was put in place on August 5.
The North Korean coal was shipped to the Russian ports of Nakhodka and Kholmsk, where it was unloaded at docks and reloaded onto ships that took it to South Korea or Japan, the sources said.
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