A senior U.S. defense official says Washington's sanctions on North Korea is intended to encourage the regime to engage in dialogue,... with a mindset on being productive to find solutions.<br />Eum Ji-young tells us more.<br />U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific security affairs, Randall Schriver,... said U.S. sanctions on North Korea are mostly intended to encourage dialogue in a way that ensures productive discussions.<br />Speaking at the Jamestown Foundation's annual China defense and security conference on Tuesday,... Schriver stressed the importance of all countries that are able,... to enforce sanctions on the North.<br />"We've been doing our part to try to maintain pressure on Pyeongyang through the enforcement of sanctions so that they will come to the table with a particular mindset where they want to be productive, where they want to reach solutions with us."<br />He also noted how China has shown "some slippage" in its enforcement of sanctions.<br />"What we are seeing from China right now unfortunately is some slippage in the enforcement of sanctions, particularly when it comes to ship-to-ship transfers happening in their territorial waters."<br />He said the Chinese shoulder a lot of responsibility when it comes to North Korea evading sanctions,... despite publicly backing the most recent UN sanctions on the regime.<br />Schriver added that China should admit to the fact... that it has been an important partner to North Korea in helping Pyeongyang build modern infrastructure.<br />He stressed that Beijing can do much better in pressuring Pyeongyang to bring the regime back to the negotiating table.<br />Regarding the working-level talks in Sweden earlier this month,... he said that it was an attempt to rebuild diplomacy in the Korean Peninsula.<br />Eum Ji-young, Arirang News.<br />