Sanctions have delayed North Korea nuclear bomb

[china]

Thursday 16th May, 2013
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Sanctions have delayed North Korea nuclear bomb, says UN report ........click

TOKYO, Japan - The United Nations has found that financial sanctions against North Korea have bore fruit as the ability of the Communist nation to push ahead with its nuclear weapons programme has been delayed. According to a confidential UN report, a combination of financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other measures had "choked off" funding to the North's nuclear programme. "While ...

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

That's too bad.

 

[Cliffy]

I'm surprised Russia has not stepped in to help them out.

 

[petros]

Why would Russia help somebody helping America and Japan? This is more squabbling over natural gas ROWs. Russia wants to supply South Korea and Japan but so does USA and Canada but we have to do it by ship.

It's the backwards politics in BC that is holding Canadian LNG ports back from meeting the orders. S Korea and Japan needed it yesterday. Russia could have supplied it yesterday through North Korea.