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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley warned North Korea on Friday that she is more than willing to let Defense Secretary Jim Mattis deal with the nuclear threat from Pyongyang if sanctions do not work. Haley said recent sanctions have “strangled” North Korea’s “economic situation,” calling the impact “dramatic.” But she said there's only so much the U.N. Security Council can do “when you cut 90 percent of the trade and 30 percent of the oil.” “So having said that, I have no problem kicking it to General Mattis because I think he has plenty of options,” Haley...

North Korea´s nuclear taunts Don´t be panicked Jan 22nd 2004 From The Economist print edition Unchecked, North Korea will harm anti-proliferation efforts everywhere MOST regimes in the illicit mass-destruction business try to hide their diabolical dabblings. Not North Korea. Its answer to American doubts about its nuclear boasts was to invite a private group of Americans earlier this month to view what it said was a lump of plutonium that will soon be turned into weapons unless America meets its demands. So where does that leave George Bush´s determination, as he put it again this week, to keep “the world´s...