Article: U.S. to take N. Korean issue to Security Council; United Nations: French and Chinese officials agree nuclear threat is an international problem

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration on Sunday portrayed the escalation of North Korea's nuclear activities as an international threat rather than a standoff only with the United States and signaled its intention to take the dispute to the U.N. Security Council.

Secretary of State Colin Powell met in New York with Foreign Ministers Tang Jiaxuan, of China, and Dominique de Villepin, of France, and they agreed that North Korea's resumption of a nuclear weapons program and its decision to quit the 1968 Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty posed an international problem, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said.

The United States intends to bring the North Korean issue to the U..N. ...

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