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China-Japan-Koreas
Obama extends sanctions on North Korea
2011-06-26
U.S. President Barack Obama has extended sanctions against North Korea for another year citing Pyongyang's continuing threat to stability on the Korean Peninsula.
Good. Now add the Norks back to the list of terrorist nations, stop all this nonsense of food aid to a terrorist nation, and put some heat on the Chinese to curb their dog.
The national emergency in relation to North Korea was declared by the Bush administration in 2008 under the National Emergencies Act. The Obama administration has not only kept extending the emergency, but also imposed tougher sanctions on Pyongyang in April, including a ban on direct and indirect imports of North Korean goods.

"The existence and the risk of proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula, and the actions and policies of the Government of North Korea that destabilize the Korean Peninsula and imperil U.S. Armed Forces, allies, and trading partners in the region, continue to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States," Obama said in a message to the U.S. Congress on Thursday.

"For these reasons, I have determined that it is necessary to continue the national emergency with respect to these threats and maintain in force the measures taken to deal with that national emergency," he said.

North Korea is banned from conducting nuclear or ballistic missile tests under UN Resolution 1718, adopted after Pyongyang's first nuclear test on October 9, 2006.
However, the country carried out a second nuclear test on May 25, 2009, followed by a series of short-range missile launches, and has threatened to build up its nuclear arsenal to counter what it calls hostile U.S. policies.
Why not a complete, comprehensive set of sanctions?
Posted by:Steve White

#2  China has said this past week it will no longer stand by the DPRK iff it engages in any new unilater mil provocations agz the ROK, but Kimmie + Regime know that, be that as it may, China won't tolerate a post-collapse or post-war DPRK occupied by US-ROK-Allied forces.

Doesn't help the DPRK though, as that by accounts the SINO-DPRK FTAS will only expand China's influence + domination oer the DPRK, not lessen it.

Lest we fergit, the DPRK = NORCOMS [Kimmie + Boyz] has historically promoted as their own the precepts of not only "ASIA FOR ASIANS", BUT ALSO "KOREA FOR KOREANS" + "NORTH KOREA FOR NORTH KOREAN/KOREANS", NOT CHINA ANDOR "WHITEY" = [foreign devils]US + EUROPEANS includ RUSSIA, OR OTHER NON-ETHNICS.

IMO this is why he wants to visit Medvedev = Russia - to counter Beijing's control, Kimmie + Regime for time being must continue their kowtow to China while "minimally/sufficiently" increasingly the foreign/international influence in the DPRK. JUST ENUFF TO APPEASE CHINA WHILE ALSO MINIMIZING?CONTAINING ITS DOMINATION VEE KIM FAMILY RULE + NORTH KOREAN SOCIALIST MOVEMENT.

D *** NG IT, KIMMIE CAN'T DO THAT - CHINA BLOGGERS CLAIM THAT CHINA + DPRK LOVE EACH OTHER!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-06-26 22:26  

#1  Double Super Secret Probation for you mister!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-06-26 09:02  

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