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China¡¯s UN Ambassador said Tuesday any U.S. efforts to slap sanctions on North Korea through the UN Security Council would "destroy" six-party nuclear disarmament talks.
Wang Guangya told reporters a U.S. attempt at a Security Council resolution "would destroy the whole process¡± to resolve the North Korean nuclear dispute and "push a solution to this issue even farther away." China is working with the other parties to get the talks back on track as soon as possible, he said.
Bloomberg reported Wang's comments were the first direct Chinese response to White House remarks on April 18 that Washington would consider referring the matter to the council if North Korea refuses to come back to the talks.
Meanwhile, two U.S. Korea experts -- former Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (KEDO) policy advisor Jason T. Shaplen and former U.S. ambassador to Korea James Laney -- in the Monday edition of the International Herald Tribune slammed the Bush administration¡¯s ¡°muddled¡± approach to North Korea. They said the White House should remember the adage that ¡°to overcome your adversary, you must imagine how he thinks,¡± and put itself in North Korean leader Kim Jong-il¡¯s shoes
¡±Attacking North Korea militarily isn't an option. We don't know where all of its nuclear installations and material are located. A military strike would also likely start a war in a region that is home to 80,000 to 90,000 U.S. troops,¡± they wrote. "A hard-line policy short of a military strike isn't the answer either. To date, the administration's muddled approach to North Korea has only elicited the very reaction it sought to avoid." They said the only solution was to try to get North Korea to join the international community.
(englishnews@chosun.com )
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