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North Korea: State Department
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This week, China put pressure on North Korea’s mercurial dictator, Kim Jung Il, apparently winning a pledge to not conduct another nuclear test. If it stands, this is the first good news to come from Secretary of State Condoleeeza Rice’s travel to Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing, and Moscow drumming up support for the U.N. Security Council’s economic sanctions and trade interdiction package.
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The Pentagon and the US State Department are developing detailed plans for sanctions against North Korea. The sanctions will include halting the country's weapons shipments and cutting off money sent there by Koreans living in Japan.
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The State Department official said he hadn't seen Choe's comments but noted that the Bush administration has long believed that North Korea has at least one or two nuclear weapons. The official, asking not to be identified, said the North Koreans ... have made a number of conflicting statements about how far along their weapons development programs have come.
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Some analysts say that North Korea might be willing to abandon its pursuit of nuclear arms in exchange for economic and energy aid and formal security assurances from the United States. Others, including some top Bush administration officials, argue that the North wants both aid and atomic weapons.
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The United States stations about 28,000 troops here in South Korea to deter a repeat of North Korea's 1950 invasion. The three-year war that resulted from that invasion has never come to a formal end: fighting was halted by a "temporary" armistice in 1953.
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"No one is going to protect" North Korea if it goes ahead with "bad behavior," Wang Guangya said amid the heated diplomacy this past week over a statement criticizing Pyongyang. "I think if North Koreans do have the nuclear test, I think that they have to realize that they will face serious consequences."
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