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North Korea

Asked whether the government had accepted North Korea’s claim of testing nuclear weapons, the Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) said that the Foreign Secretary would be making a statement shortly. However, everything we have seen so far led us to believe that we should take this with due seriousness.

Asked on what basis were we making that assessment on, the PMOS said there was a variety of means by which to assess this. There had been a process where North Korea had been warned on a repeated basis. Therefore, why did it bring the opprobrium of the international community on its head.

Asked what sort of measures or sanctions seemed appropriate, the PMOS said our Ambassador at the UN had talked about his interpretation, which was that this merited Chapter VII action, which equalled sanctions. What we had to do was work with the other members of the Security Council.

Asked whether we would work in concert with the US as President Bush had said in his statement, the PMOS said we would work in concert with the international community as a whole. We worked in the knowledge that Japan and China had issued a joint statement yesterday, which made their position very clear. South Korea had made it’s position very clear. The US had also made it’s position very clear and we had made our position clear. What made this case more clear cut was that North Korea should have be in no doubt of what the response of the International community would been never mind that of the UK. Therefore, North Korea could not have been unclear in anyway as to the reaction it was likely to provoke.

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