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Hitting North Korea The U.N. takes on Pyongyang The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to adopt a resolution condemning North Korea's missile tests and demanding that it suspend its ballistic-missile program. Undeterred, North Korea vowed to continue its program...
...President Clinton, argues that "the spirit of the resolution is more important than the letter." "The unanimity of the UNSC behind a pretty strong resolution is the story, in my opinion," says Bader, who now runs the Brookings Institution's China Initiative, "and it sends the desired message to Pyongyang of the unacceptability of its missile launches and its continuing to boycott the six-party talks...
...Beijing is reluctant to take a harder line, partly because it can neither control Kim nor predict how he will react. Pyongyang in the past has made veiled threats that it would attack South Korea if sanctions were imposed. Following the passage of the U.N. resolution on Saturday, North Korea said through its U.N. representative that it "totally rejects" the measure...
...regime's collapse, bringing refugees, disease and economic and social disruption to China's northeast. Such fears are well founded, says Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. In 1994, China's reduction of rice supplies to the North?part of a previous effort to force Pyongyang to negotiate over its nuclear-weapons program?contributed to a devastating famine. "The famine was the fault of North Korean mismanagement, of course, but it's clear that Chinese actions were the straw that broke the camel's back," Eberstadt says. If China halted aid today, "Who can say whether there...
...Beijing will almost certainly stick to its long-standing policy of economic engagement with North Korea, in the hope that it can wean Kim from nukes and bring him closer to the international community. China, along with South Korea and the U.S., have been urging Pyongyang to return to the six-party talks, the multilateral forum created to negotiate an end to North Korea's nuclear program. Pyongyang's delegates walked out of the last round of talks in November, vowing not to return unless the U.S. lifts a freeze on North Korean assets at a Macau bank. That freeze...