US, China Propose Tough UN Sanctions for N Korea
By EDITH M. LEDERER and RON DePASQUALE
UNITED NATIONS March 5, 2013 (AP)
A U.S.-China draft resolution aimed at reining in North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile program would impose some of the strongest sanctions ever ordered by the United Nations, in a move certain to infuriate the regime and inflame tensions on the Korean Peninsula.
The proposed resolution put forward by the United States and China — North Korea's closest ally — followed Pyongyang's third nuclear test on Feb. 12. It reflected the U.N. Security Council's growing anger over the country's defiance of three previous rounds of sanctions aimed at halting all nuclear and missile tests.
Gary Locke is Washington's former Governor is of Chinese decent, and now is the currently US Ambassador to China. No doubt Gary Locke's work was instrumental in getting the Chinese government to act more strongly on their frustrations with their longtime ally in the UN.
A photo I took of North Korea's Embassy when I was in Beijing two weeks ago.
Not a happy place today.
My brother joked that we should stop in and pay Gary Locke a visit as a couple of Washington natives as we walked by the back door of the US Embassy in Bejing.
Locke was probably devoting his attention to the very issue of North Korean weapons tests at the time.