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Tuesday, 5 March 2013

China Said to Back New Sanctions Against North Korea

China has agreed to support a new round of United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea to punish it for the nuclear test it conducted in February, diplomats said late Monday, paving the way for an American-drafted sanctions resolution to be distributed to council members for a possible vote this week.


Word that a resolution was moving forward apparently infuriated North Korea, which vowed to cut off the hot line with the United States military in South Korea, said it considered the 1953 truce that halted the Korean War null and void, and threatened to strike the United States with “light and miniaturized nuclear bombs.”


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Gerry Mullany, New York Times via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/jDOhoB4PMMo/

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