South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday signalled a tough new approach to derailing North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme, promising an uncompromising and more assertive response to Pyongyang’s provocations.
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Congress approved the bill on Friday.
“Achieving these objectives will require increased vigilance by the USA and the cooperation of the worldwide community, especially from China, which must stop preventing the United Nations Security Council from taking further action against North Korea”.
The measure follows North Korea’s recent nuclear weapons test and satellite launch.
North Korea recently fired a long-range rocket, which critics said was a test of banned missile technology. Earnest did not say when the signing will take place but assured that Obama plans to sign it.
Records show that Kim Jong-il was in fact born in a refugee camp in Russian Federation, but this particular claim is not as outlandish as some of the others to come out of North Korea: for instance, did you know that Kim Jong-un learnt to drive at age three, and that he cured Aids and Ebola? The U.S. has also opened talks with South Korea about developing more missile-defense systems to eliminate the possibility that a North Korean missile could reach U.S. facilities.
State-run KCNA news agency quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying: “The policy persistently pursued by the USA to stifle the DPRK [North Korea], groundlessly stirring up bad blood towards it, would only harden its will and resolution to defend the sovereignty of the country”.
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The bill requires the president to investigate anyone who provides North Korea with equipment or knowledge it can use to build weapons of mass destruction; imports luxury goods; or engages in money laundering, counterfeiting or drug smuggling to help support the government.
