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Article: U.S. to take N. Korean issue to Security Council; United Nations: French and Chinese officials agree nuclear threat is an international problem
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
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- January 20, 2003
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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. ...