U.S. Weighs Intercepting North Korean Shipments

[ddiver]

Source: nytimes

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration signaled Sunday that it was seeking a way to interdict, possibly with China’s help, North Korean sea and air shipments suspected of carrying weapons or nuclear technology.

The administration also said it was examining whether there was a legal basis to reverse former President George W. Bush’s decision last year to remove the North from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.

The reference to interdictions — preferably at ports or airfields in countries like China, but possibly involving riskier confrontations on the high seas — was made by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was the administration’s highest-ranking official to talk publicly about such a potentially provocative step as a response to North Korea’s second nuclear test, conducted two weeks ago.

While Mrs. Clinton did not specifically mention assistance from China, other administration officials have been pressing Beijing to take such action under Chinese law.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/world/asia/08korea.html?_r=1&hp

[SkyDaddy7]

1. I hope China gets on board...

If not then China will have live within a Nuclear neighborhood...I seriously doubt it would take Japan long at all to have top notch nuclear weapons and perhaps South Korea too.

[Tesha]

2. Interdicting their shipping would be an overt act of war by us.

Which, of course, is exactly what all of North Korea's sabre-rattling
was designed to provoke: precipitous action on our part.

Tesha

[peacetalksforall]

3. Why does Obama and Clinton and China believe they should be the U.N.?

So imperialism continues into this administration?

There is only one reason to intercept - and that is to find out who is selling the stuff. Is it Cheney and Khan or new players? I suspect that the U.N. and other groups already know.

I cannot see that I will be convinced that this is anything other than imperialism.

I don't get it. I can't accept it.