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...event itself is taking place, but the South Korean performers will not be participating this time," said an official of the Isang Yun Peace Foundation in Seoul—the South Korean organization planning the concert with the North—in a phone interview with The Crimson. The official asked not to be named because of the sensitive nature of the situation...
Isang Yun, a South Korean composer, was arrested in 1967 and sentenced to death for alleged communist ties after he visited North Korea in order to organize concerts that would involve musicians from both countries. Yun was eventually released and lived in exile in Germany until his death...
...Russia and China pushed back hard, warning that "extreme sanctions" would only exacerbate the crisis. China's U.N. ambassador made clear that Beijing sees interdicting North Korean shipping, for example, as likely to raise the danger of a military response from Pyongyang, sending the confrontation potentially spiraling out of control. For China and Russia, the endgame remains restoring the six-party talks and persuading North Korea to give up nuclear weapons in exchange for political, economic and security incentives. Moscow and Beijing - as well as South Korea - agree that North Korea must be punished for its flagrant disregard of Security...
...Japan have taken the lead in pushing for tough measures that would squeeze North Korea by enforcing a wide-ranging embargo, requiring that shipping entering and leaving North Korean waters be subject to search under threat of force. Japan has already instituted tough measures curbing trade and travel, and Washington and Tokyo pushed for the Security Council to pass a resolution under Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which allows for decisions to be backed by the threat or use of force in response to threats to global security...
...resolution that was finally adopted was necessarily a compromise between different views of how the North Korean nuclear crisis is to be resolved. And the focus of the main players will now shift to what comes after the U.N. vote. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plans to travel to Tokyo, Beijing and Seoul to rally support for a vigorous implementation of the sanctions resolution. Russia, China and South Korea will be looking for ways to restart the six-party process - a process they believe requires direct negotiations between the U.S. and North Korea, and a readiness to offer Pyongyang security...