NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that new U.N. penalties against North Korea provide the necessary tools to help check the communist nation’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
The latest sanctions, approved Friday, are aimed at depriving North Korea of financing used to build its nuclear program.
“This was a tremendous statement on behalf of the world community that North Korea’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and the capacity to deliver those weapons through missiles is not going to be accepted by the neighbors as well as the greater international community,” Clinton said at a news conference in Niagara Falls, Ontario, after talks with Canada’s foreign affairs minister. “I think these sanctions . . . give the world community the tools we need to take appropriate action.” The Associated Press
