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Speaking at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, Rice stressed that the implementation of the U.N. resolution is a responsibility of all U.N. member countries. But she added, “As for our part, the United States is now obligated to adopt additional sanctions on North Korea under national legislation.”

This includes the Glenn Amendment to the Arms Export Control Act initiated by Senator John Glenn in 1994 and permitting a wide range of sanctions against a country that conducts a nuclear test. They include measures against the provision of loans to the country by international financial institutions, and the suspension of exports of strategic goods.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks about North Korea during remarks at the Heritage Foundation in Washington on Wednesday./Reuters

Rice did not says what extra sanctions Washington will impose. The U.S. used the amendment against India and Pakistan in 1998 after the two countries tested nuclear weapons. Rice said the nations in six-party talks on the North‘s nuclear program “all agreed that if those talks resume, Resolution 1718 would remain in force until North Korea has made progress on denuclearization.” Turning to South Korea, she urged Seoul to implement the UN resolution, saying that it must take strong action against Pyongyang after it detonated a nuclear weapon in its backyard.

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