Cautioning North Korea to desist from provocative actions, the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said that there are consequences to such actions.
Cautioning North Korea to desist from provocative actions like nuclear tests and missile launch in violation of international law, the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday said that there are consequences to such actions.
The nature of such action by international community is currently being discussed and debated at the United Nations by all the key global powers, Clinton told reporters at the State Department.
"There are consequences to such actions," she said charging North Korea of abrogating the obligations it entered into through the Six-Party Talks. "And it continues to act in a provocative and belligerent manner toward its neighbours".
She said that discussions were going on in the United Nations to add to the consequences that North Korea would face coming out of its latest behaviour.
Clinton was satisfied with the action of international community, including China and Russia, in setting forth a very specific condemnation of North Korea and then working for a firm resolution going forward.
At the same time, she hoped that there would be an opportunity for North Korea to come back into a framework of discussion within the Six-Party process, and would begin to see results from working with them toward denuclearization that would benefit the people of North Korea, the region, and the world.
Meanwhile, the White House said the actions of North Korea have further deepen their own isolation from the international community and from the rights and obligations that they themselves have agreed to live up to.
"We are certainly concerned and take any threat seriously. But my sense is they are trying to get renewed attention through saber rattling and bluster and threats, and I think the attention they are trying to gain is not going to be successful, given what they are trying to do," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters at his daily
press briefing.
Gibbs acknowledged that there was a frustration that the North Koreans don't seem to want to live up to the obligations that they had previously made to the international community.
"The unified international condemnation of this came fast and furious," he said, adding the vast majority of our allies strongly believe, that what North Korea is doing is hurting them.
The US would continue to look at ways to ensure through the access of infrastructure, either banks or ports to ensure that they are not moving material that could be used to produce a weapon of mass destruction, he said.
Earlier in the day, the State Department said the US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, met with her counterparts of P5 along with that of the Japanese Ambassador.
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