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Biden: Important to enforce NKorean sanctions
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 14 - 06 - 2009


Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday
committed the U.S. to enforcing new U.N. penalties against
North Korea while acknowledging that «God only knows»
what ruler Kim Jong Il wants from the latest showdown, AP reported.
The sanctions are aimed at depriving the reclusive
communist country of the financing used to build its
nuclear program. A new U.N. resolution also authorizes
searches of North Korean ships suspected of transporting
illicit ballistic missile and nuclear materials.
«It is important that we make sure those sanctions stick
and those sanctions prohibit them from exporting or
importing weapons,» Biden said. «This is a matter of us
now keeping the pressure on.»
Ahead of President Barack Obama's meeting Tuesday in
Washington with South Korean leader Lee Myung-bak, the
North warned of a nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and
pledged to step up its atomic bomb-making program in
defiance of the fresh penalties.
«They say a lot of things,» Biden said in an interview
with NBC television's «Meet the Press.» He called the
North «a destabilizing force in the region.»
«There is a coalescing of that conclusion on the part of
the Chinese, the Russians, Japanese, South Koreans,
Americans like never before,» Biden said. These countries
have been involved in negotiations with North Korea to curb
its nuclear weapons program.
On Saturday, North Korea said it has been enriching
uranium to provide fuel for its light-water reactor. It was
the first public acknowledgment that the North is running a
uranium enrichment program in addition to its known
plutonium-based program. The two radioactive materials are
key ingredients in making atomic bombs.
Kim reportedly had a stroke 10 months ago and analysts
believe there may be a plan in place to name the youngest
of his three sons as the future leader.
«God only knows what he wants,» Biden said of Kim.
«There's all kinds of discussions. Whether this is about
succession, wanting his son to succeed him. Whether or not
he's looking for respect. Whether or not he really wants a
nuclear capability to threaten the region. ... We can't
guess his motives.
«We just have to deal with the reality that a North Korea
that is either proliferating weapons and or missiles, or a
North Korea that is using those weapons ... is a serious
danger and threat to the world, and particularly East
Asia,» the vice president said.
Further adding to the tensions, North Korea last week
handed down 12-year prison terms to two detained American
journalists.
Asked about potential negotiations for their release,
Biden said, «I don't think it's appropriate, nor in the
interests of the journalists, for me to discuss that.»


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