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June 21, 2009

North Korea ups rhetoric

The nations of the world have a legitimate reason to search vessels going into and coming out of North Korea.

More than 90 nations signed an agreement earlier this month initiating searches in the latest sanctions against the communist nation, which has restarted, or continues, to refine uranium for nuclear weapons.

Given North Korea’s lack of resources and technology, it needs assistance and revenue from other parts of the world to continue its program. So North Korea probably is exporting the weapons it makes and weapons technology it has to fund its atomic development and it certainly imports needed technology.

The world can’t allow that given North Korea’s erratic behavior, and the world needs to stand by the latest sanctions and impose even tougher ones if North Korea’s leaders continue their refinement of uranium.

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