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Team Turk on Sunday, October 15, 2006 2:40:15 PM
Associated Press reports
Security Council resolution.
The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to condemn North Korea and impose stiff sanctions on the communist government in response to its claimed nuclear test.
North Korea's ambassador immediately rejected the council's demand to dismantle its nuclear-weapons program and threatened to respond to the escalating pressure on the reclusive government with unspecified "physical countermeasures."
Addressing the council chamber in English, North Korea's U.N. ambassador, Pak Gil Yon, told the council that his government "totally rejects" the council's "unjustifiable" resolution. He said it was "gangsterlike" for the council to impose such "coercive" measures. He walked out of the chamber before the session ended.
Addressing the council chamber in English, North Korea's U.N. ambassador, Pak Gil Yon, told the council that his government "totally rejects" the council's "unjustifiable" resolution. He said it was "gangsterlike" for the council to impose such "coercive" measures. He walked out of the chamber before the session ended.
After Pak's speech, Bolton directed the council's attention to the North Korean diplomat's empty chair and suggested his right to address the council be suspended.
"That is the second time in three months that the representative of [North Korea], having asked to participate in our meetings, has rejected a unanimous resolution of the Security Council and walked out of this chamber," Bolton said. "It's the contemporary equivalent of Nikita Khrushchev's pounding his shoe on the desk of the General Assembly."