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China Shows Willingness to Punish North Korea for Test |
2006-10-11 |
China said today that it would support appropriate “punitive actions” against North Korea in response to its announcement of a nuclear test, a harsher step than it has been willing to take in the past. At South Korean ports today, freighters waited for word from Seoul about whether they could sail to the North with aid for flood victims in North Korea. The country’s ambassador to the United Nations, Wang Guangya, told reporters that “there has to be some punitive actions, but also I think that these actions have to be appropriate.” He said that the council needed to have a “firm, constructive, appropriate but prudent response to North Korea’s nuclear threat,” according to news services. It was not clear whether Mr. Guangya’s remarks meant that China would support the resolution proposed by the United States, which calls for international inspections of all cargo going in or out of North Korea. But the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, John R. Bolton, gave an upbeat assessment of the Security Council’s talks on North Korea today, even as he and other Bush administration officials sought to fend off criticism that North Korea’s apparent entry into the ranks of nuclear nations represented a failure of American policy. |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 The ChiComs aren't gonna do diddy They never have and never will. China's criticism of North Korea is a straw man they purposefully set up and knock down for world consumption. It gives them the chance to play with the diplomatic big boys and mouth all the appropriate platitudes whilst simultaneously counter-balancing American military might in the region. It's all pure bullshit. China is Kim's pimp and they whore him at will. |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-11 13:25 |
#5 J: ... or their trains back. Let me suggest to you either that the whole thing was a charade, or it never happened. Note that China isn't exactly an open society, and the incident - if it happened - wasn't a 9/11 kind of incident with hundreds of thousands of eyewitnesses. Now if North Korea sends a couple of jet planes into Shanghai's tallest buildings, I'll believe they've had a falling out. Otherwise, count me a skeptic - my view remains that North Korea is China's handpuppet. |
Posted by: Zhang Fei 2006-10-11 13:20 |
#4 ... or their trains back. |
Posted by: Jackal 2006-10-11 11:23 |
#3 They show a willingness to sign onto a very strongly worded letter to Kimmie. |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2006-10-11 08:42 |
#2 I'm receiving bad vibes on this one. The ChiComs aren't gonna do diddy |
Posted by: Captain America 2006-10-11 02:18 |
#1 "You've been a bad boy, here's some more fireworks!" |
Posted by: Zenster 2006-10-11 01:18 |