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...leery of using punitive measures to prod Kim into line. But this time Pyongyang may have gone too far. On Saturday, the United Nations Security Council, which includes China as a permanent member, unanimously passed a Tokyo-sponsored resolution condemning North Korea's tests and demanding that it immediately suspend its missile program. The resolution also imposed sanctions by barring U.N. member states from trading technology and material with North Korea that could be used in missiles or weapons of mass destruction?a key measure sought by the U.S. and Japan. American and Japanese diplomats secured Beijing's vote...
...should be penalized for defying the international community's unanimous appeal not to conduct its July 4 tests. China and South Korea are the main economic benefactors of North Korea, and President Bush is right to seek a United Nations Security Council action that would compel all nations to suspend trade with Pyongyang...
...negotiations over the future of its nuclear program, and then actually deal in good faith. Both China and Russia have been reluctant to press for economic, financial and political sanctions if Iran balks. But without real costs to weigh against its nuclear plans, Iran will have little reason to suspend uranium enrichment and other suspect nuclear activities. Syed Waris Shere Paris Football and Flag Waving The article "Germany's next pitch" [June 12] reported on Germany's willingness to create a new national image and present it to the world while the country is host of the World Cup. Public...
...proposal a "positive step." Ahmadinejad said last week that Iran plans to respond to the West's offer by mid-August, but that's too slow for the Bush Administration, which wants an answer by the end of June. Analysts close to the regime say Khamenei may agree to suspend uranium enrichment for a fixed period but will quibble on specifics in hopes of prolonging talks and forestalling action by the U.N. Security Council. "Iran won't say no," says Saeed Laylaz, a former government official. "But it won't say yes immediately either. The answer is not going...
...they appear likely to reject the Western demand that Iran suspend its small-scale enrichment experiments before any talks can be held. Instead, pragmatic elements close to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have indicated a willingness to accept a deal in which Iran agrees, for a defined period of years, to refrain from industrial-scale uranium enrichment and instead acquire its reactor fuel from Russia or elsewhere. Nonetheless, they hope to come away from the table with an agreement that allows them to continue enrichment experiments, under international monitoring, with a cascade of centrifuges too small to create weapons-grade...