After
15-0 DPRK
Vote, S. Korea
Says Not the
Day to Talk,
China Says 6
Party
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
March 7 --
After the
North Korea
resolution
passed 15-0 in
the UN
Security
Council
Thursday
morning, four
Ambassadors
came out
to speak to
the media.
(Inner City
Press is putting
the resolution
online here.)
Inner City
Press asked
China's
Permanent
Representative
Li Baodong
about the
quote he'd
earlier
exclusively
given to the
Press, that
“sanctions
should be part
of a
comprehensive
strategy to
bring back
that country
to normal
track.
Engagement and
diplomacy
should be the
primary
options.”
Given
North Korea's
new threat of
pre-emptive
nuclear strike
at the United
States, what
is the next
step toward
“engagement
and
diplomacy”?
Li
said, six
party talks.
Moments
later,
South Korean
Permanent
Representative
Kim Sook said,
“today
is not the
right time to
talk about
dialogue.”
Then
who will?
Inner City
Press asked
Kim Sook if
South Korea
could see a
role for the
UN
Secretariat.
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon had a
five paragraph
statement
ready and
e-mailed out
moments after
the
vote.
But
Kim Sook told
Inner City
Press, you
have to ask
the Secretary
General
that. We'll
try.
Last
came Russia's
Vitaly
Churkin,
president of
the Security
Council for
March. He also
said that
today might
not be the
right day to
re-start
the six party
talks. Inner
City Press
asked him,
when then? He
said
the cycle of
provocation
should stop,
other
interested
parties must
act
responsibly
too. “Let's
keep our minds
cool,” Churkin
concluded.
Afterward,
Inner
City Press
asked Kim
Sook, if today
is not the
right time to
talk about
dialogue, when
would be?
“Maybe the day
after
tomorrow,” Kim
Sook quipped.
And then he
was gone.
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