BELFAST (Reuters) - The United States will continue working for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula regardless of reports that North Korea launched missiles on Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said. The United States and its allies were trying to demonstrate to North Korea that the international community would not accept its continuing nuclear program, she said. "Our goals remain the same. We intend to work toward a nuclear free Korean peninsula," Clinton told a news conference in Belfast. "Our consultation with our partners and allies continues unabated. It is unaffected by the behavior of North Korea." Earlier, South Korea's Yonhap news agency quoted a ...
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - China says it is committed to enforcing U.N. sanctions against North Korean companies and individuals linked to Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs, a U.S. official said on Thursday. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, U.S. coordinator for implementation of U.N. sanctions against North Korea, told reporters that U.N. member states have voiced "a unity of view, a singleness of purpose in implementing these (sanctions) resolutions." "That's the case, certainly, with our Chinese partners," he said after addressing a closed-door meeting of the Security Council's sanctions committee on North Korea. "There have been some results, some of those have been reported in the press." ...
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The United States is sending a top diplomatic official on North Korea's nuclear program to Asia next week to discuss the isolated regime with US regional allies. Ambassador Philip Goldberg, the US coordinator for the implementation of recent United Nations sanctions against North Korea, told reporters he will travel to Singapore, Thailand, South Korea and Japan. He will be accompanied by officials from the Pentagon, Treasury Department and National Security Council. "After the discussion at the ASEAN (Association of South East Asian Nations) meeting last month Secretary (Hillary) Clinton asked us to return to conduct additional discussions on implementation," Goldberg said at a briefing ...
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The US chief of naval operations on Monday denounced North Korea's weekend ballistic missile launches and vowed to keep tracking its ships if they are suspected of carrying banned weapons. "I think they were very unhelpful, and clearly counter to the desires of the international community for a peaceful and stable region," Admiral Gary Roughead told reporters after talks with South Korean military officials. He said the US Navy would keep tracking North Korean ships suspected of carrying banned weapons. "As circumstances arise in the future, we will continue to support the resolution and we will conduct operations in support of that." His comments ...
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A U.N. Security Council committee on sanctions against North Korea has agreed on a list of companies, individuals and goods to be targeted, a diplomat present at the meeting said on Thursday. The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because the meeting was still in progress, said the sanctions targeted five North Korean companies, five North Korean individuals and two weapons-related items. The measure would prohibit companies and nations from doing business with the named firms and require them to freeze assets and impose travel bans on the individuals. It would lengthen a blacklist of companies and individuals involved in ...
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