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Article: US pressing for UN action on NKorea nuclear trade
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- June 8, 2009
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At the risk of triggering a military confrontation, the Obama administration is pressing for new U.N. action aimed at cutting off North Korea's ability to peddle its nuclear wares, including an arrangement to interdict air and sea shipments of nuclear materials and hardware to and from North Korea.
The core U.S. concern is that North Korea, in cementing its position as a nuclear power, could accelerate the global spread of nuclear know-how and weapons, along with ballistic missiles.
If the U.N. effort should provide authority to board vessels forcibly in international waters on suspicion of carrying banned materials, as advocated by the United States, it could prompt a ...