US Sees Need to Carefully Plan Sanctions on N. Korea-Kyodo News

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3//Kyodo News, Japan Dec 15, 2004 updated 11:25

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/all/display.jsp?an=20041215051



U.S. SEES NEED TO CAREFULLY PLAN SANCTIONS ON N. KOREA



WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, Kyodo - The United States believes that imposition of sanctions on North Korea should be carefully planned to maximize their effect, but it is up to Japan to decide on whether to impose sanctions, the U.S. State Department said Tuesday.



''We do not take a position on whether or not Japan should impose sanctions on North Korea,'' department spokesman Richard Boucher told reporters, underlining comments made by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

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''He didn't recommend one way or the other whether Japan should take that step,'' Boucher said, referring to Armitage's meeting Monday with Yuriko Koike, Japan's environment minister, who is also in charge of Okinawa and Northern Territory affairs.



After her talks in Washington with Armitage and Michael Green, senior director for Asia on the White House National Security Council, Koike said they ''advised that there is room to consider what is best regarding the timing and method'' for implementing sanctions, because North Korea may use the issue as a tool to ''outmaneuver'' on various issues.



The United States, which has repeatedly expressed its support for Japan's efforts to settle the abduction issue, is apparently concerned that unilateral imposition of sanctions by Japan could harden North Korea's stance on an early resumption of the stalled six-nation talks on its nuclear programs.

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[RPM]

1. our fearless idealogue leaders...

... are in over their heads on this one.

God, I hope they don't fuck it up - I've never been to the west coast...

[AndyTiedye]

2. Booosh** Might Fuck It Up On Purpose

I don't think he likes the West Coast very much.
All blue states.
Very blue.
Lots of the Democrats' biggest contributors are out here too.

And if 9/11 wasn't a big enough Reichstag Fire to burn up the Bill of Rights,
this certainly would be.

I hope somebody reminds him that fallout travels from west to east.

:scared::nuke::scared::nuke: