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Published Date: 29 May 2009
By Eric Talmadge in Seoul
A DRAFT resolution being circulated among key United Nations Security Council members strongly condemns North Korea's nuclear test and urges UN members to begin enforcing previously approved sanctions against Pyongyang.
The council "condemns in the strongest terms" the test conducted on 25 May. Prepared by Japan and the United States, the draft "calls upon all member states immediately to enforce the measures that were put in place by resolution 1718", passed in October 2006 after North Korea's first nuclear test.

That resolution banned further tests and long-range missile launches and imposed sanctions that have been widely ignored and unenforced.

Meanwhile, South Korean and US troops yesterday raised their alert to the highest level since 2006, as North Korea renounced its truce with allied forces and threatened to strike any ship trying to intercept its vessels.

The move was a sign of heightened tensions on the peninsula following the North's underground nuclear test and its firing of a series of short-range missiles this week.





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  • Last Updated: 28 May 2009 11:32 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: North Korea
 
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29/05/2009 00:13:45
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GibsonAustralia,

Sydney 29/05/2009 00:49:19
China owns the UN Nannie as does Russia. What they want will come to pass.
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Carolyn 1,

29/05/2009 02:41:58
Their words are worthless.

Obama came to be president because people swooned over his words that he could reduce nuclear proliferation.

The writing was on the wall but we did not read it.
The facts are, that over the next two years it will be much the opposite.
UAE is buying up anti-ballistic missiles and considering nuke weapons as self-defense from Iran. Lord knows what's being taken out of Pakistan and transferred.
The US has on the table the thought of setting up Japan with nukes before it's flattened.



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Mashimaro,

China 29/05/2009 03:30:16
#2 Yes, we do.
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29/05/2009 08:29:01
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Mashimaro,

China 29/05/2009 09:14:21
Interesting that our fishing vessels are fleeing the area.
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Mashimaro,

China 29/05/2009 12:15:25
Ah yes, that would explain why
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Let's have the truth,

Australia 29/05/2009 13:42:37
#3

"The writing was on the wall but we did not read it".

Rubbish! It was the Bush administration that caused the present situation by their beligerence and their threats to invade all and sundry.

It was people like Rumsfeld and Cheney who put the writing on the wall. The Abu Ghraib photographs didn't help.
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Carolyn 1,

29/05/2009 18:21:56
LHTT@ 8
It was people like Rumsfeld and Cheney who put the writing on the wall"


Nooooo. N. Korea got its nuclear set-up with lots of help and scientists from China and Russia long ago.

I'm not sure if Cheney and Rumsfield would know the difference between uranium and plutonium if it was handed to them with a bag of cash,
(I'm not a fan of Rumsfield but to accuse him of selling nuke tech to N.Korea is redunculous)
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Taz,

The Land of the Free 29/05/2009 21:09:38
We need OUT the UN right now, and NATO a week later. Let the Europeans start defending themselves, and let Japan do the spending and fighting over N Korea. The Koreans have a few paybacks coming for the Japanese anyway.
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Carolyn 1,

Boston, Massachusetts 29/05/2009 21:27:54
Out of UN, out Of Nato, out of Afghanistan, out of every military base except the homestead.

Gee, Taz, if you ever want to run the country, give me a call, I'll send a check...can I assume if you ran the country we'd have the troops home building missile defense silos and guarding the border... with Americans opening American owned banks and Americans re-building the factories that corporations closed last decade and moved to China....
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Lynne,

30/05/2009 00:47:56
I wonder what this "strong letter" from the UN is going to say to frighten Kim Jong Il and his military into cooperation!!

He must be running low on fuel and food again for the military.. so it's time to blackmail again. And he is now showing his wares to all that are interested in buying them.

I think China should put them in their place and tell them there will be no more fuel or food UNTIL they comply.. and they should go back on the Axis of Evil list.. that always gets their knickers in a bunch.

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Mashimaro,

China 30/05/2009 02:02:25
Carolyn and Lynne, have you forgotten that the US flattened this country, then, when it tried to get up they flattened it again and again and again?
North Korea needs power - fuel, you know, like you guys use every day to drive your oil sucking air choking hummers. I guess the government should just tell its people "sorry we'll be good and wait for the bountiful west to give us everything".
Well guess what, they won't. They need nuclear power and if you want to make it into a fight, you're going to get it.
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Mashimaro,

China 30/05/2009 02:19:53
But then the US warmongers have been eager for the peninsula (and Japan) to run with blood for years. Interesting how the one South Korean corruption fighting leader who happened to have a really good relationship with North Korea was driven to suicide. How he's been replaced with a US mad-dog puppet.
Let's remember that it was Clinton in 1993 who decided to hold war games in South Korea and point nukes at North Korea. Strangely those oddball north koreans interpreted that as a threat - go figure. And they said they would withdraw from the NPT. After talks with the US, they decided to return to it.
Then the IAEA officials - instigated by the US, wanted to have further, more widespread, intrusive inspections, which they had not done in any other country. North Korea found that the IAEA inspectors were spying for the US.
Clinton said the plutoniumm being extracted at Yongbyon was being used to develop a nuclear bomb. There was no evidence of this but as usual the western media leaped on it and reported it. Clinton then went on "meet the press" to insist that North Korea could not be allowed to develope a nuke and whip up support for sanctions. But in truth they were already preparing for war with North Korea. It planned to bomb Yongbyon and then, when North korea understandably defended itself, "U.S. forces, working side by side with the South Korean army and using bases in Japan, would quickly destroy the North Korean army and the North Korean regime. But unlike Desert Storm, which was waged in the Arabian Desert, the combat in another Korean War would take place in Seoul’s crowded suburbs." according to Defense Secretary William Perry and Assistant Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.
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Mashimaro,

China 30/05/2009 02:21:06
Those two peace loving cherubs admitted "price would be heavy, estimating that "thousands of U.S. troops and tens of thousands of South Korean troops would be killed, and millions of refugees would crowd the highways. North Korean losses would be even higher. The intensity of combat would be greater than any the world has witnessed since the last Korean War."
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Anti American,

Anywhere but America 30/05/2009 13:14:57
You've got to admire there North Koreans standing up against the rest of the world like that.

When it comes to America, always back the underdog.

 

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