Clinton Denounces Pyongyang's Actions

The United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stated openly that, “[The U.S. has] absolutely no interest and no willingness…to give [North Korea] any economic aid at all,” and that they are “digging themselves into a deeper and deeper hole” through its latest actions, including refusing nuclear activity verification.

Clinton firmly stated that she had no support for the $100 million U.S. economic aid request for North Korea, based on its actions during the previous several months, which include threatening the U.N Security Council, boycotting the disarmament conference, and extracting plutonium at its nuclear arms plant.

She also said that the North Korean actions are absolutely unacceptable both on a national and international scale, and she is absolutely right. North Korea should not be allowed to get away with actions like these.

If North Korea doesn’t dig itself of the hole it got itself into during the next several months, it is our right and it is our duty to denounce North Korea’s decisions and take action against it, by whatever means.

North Korea is a threat right now to millions of people. If the U.S. does not step in and take action soon, the threat level will grow to billions of people. The U.S. can start by demonstrating that it will not permit actions such as those demonstrated to persist. We should not, cannot and will not tolerate actions as unacceptable as these.

Original article: Reuters, April 30, 2009