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To: Cindy; All
US Warns NKorea to Stop Exporting Dangerous Weapons or Face World Action

Fri Mar 12, 1:19 PM ET

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States warned North Korea (news - web sites) that it would face action from the international community if it does not stop exporting dangerous weapons and other illegal activities.

"If North Korea will not act, it will find the United States, its allies and other partners equally prepared to respond with measures that ensure North Korea cannot threaten our countries or international stability," said Mitchell Reiss, the department's director of policy planning.

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, one of Washington's leading repositories of expertise on East Asia, Reiss said the United States was taking steps to enforce its laws against alleged narcotics trafficking and counterfeiting of US currency by the rogue state.

He said these steps were ongoing and unrelated to the current six-party negotiations -- which include North and South Korea (news - web sites), Japan, the United States, China and Russia -- to ease the nuclear standoff in North Korea…..

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1521&u=/afp/20040312/pl_afp/us_nkorea_nuclear_040312181932&printer=1
4,861 posted on 03/12/2004 7:34:58 PM PST by all4one (Major Brian Reed said he responded to Saddam: "President Bush sends his regards.")
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To: all4one
Interesting.
Lets see how N. Korea responds.
Hmmmm....
4,865 posted on 03/12/2004 7:37:22 PM PST by Cindy
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To: all4one
US Warns NKorea

Uh-Oh
5,005 posted on 03/13/2004 6:34:16 AM PST by JustPiper
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