From Washington Post:
China on Tuesday expressed a rare willingness to support U.N. sanctions against its ally North Korea, but it said any punitive action would have to be narrowly targeted at the country’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.
The United States and Japan continued to press the U.N. Security Council to support far stronger economic and trade measures that would permit international inspections of all North Korean cargo to search for weapons and to strangle Pyongyang’s ability to finance its nuclear program.
Varied responses to the nuclear test that North Korea apparently conducted early Monday emerged as the Bush administration sought to assuage fresh worries by its foreign counterparts that the tough strategy may cause hardship for the country’s impoverished population or topple the government. France, for instance, voiced concern that a Japanese proposal to ban all North Korean exports could fuel a humanitarian crisis. [Full Text]
Read the article( in Chinese) of ” North Korea’s Test on Nuclear Made Negative impact to Sino-North Korea Relations” from Peple’s Daily, saying China seriously denouced North Korea’s test on Nuclear…
(Photo of China Foreign Spokesman, Liu Jianchao, made such speech)
