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Security Council Votes Unanimously for Sanctions on N. Korea Stewart StogelUNITED NATIONS -- After almost a week of intensive negotiations, Washington and Beijing agreed on punitive measures to be taken against North Korea for its declared nuclear test last Monday.
Though considerably watered down by Moscow and Beijing, the White House did get the U.N. Security Council to set in motion a road map for punishing the reclusive regime in Pyongyang.
Under the initial steps taken in an unanimous Council vote on Saturday, the following steps will be taken against North Korea:
1. A demand that North Korea halt any further nuclear testing.
2. A demand that North Korea return to its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
3. A demand that North Korea halt all ballistic missile testing.
4. A demand that North Korea halt all nuclear "research" activities in a verifiable manner.
5. A demand that North Korea halt all other weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs.
6. A prohibition of sales by all U.N. members of military hardware to North Korea. That would include tanks, armoured combat vehicles, attack helicopters, warships, missiles, or missile systems.
7. A prohibition of sales or imports of all commercial "luxury goods."
8. A freeze on all overseas North Korean financial assets.
9. A travel ban on North Korean personnel connected with its weapons programs.
The Council did leave a carrot for Pyongyang, by informing North Korea that the sanctions might be modified or even suspended if the DPRK returned to the six-nation talks on disamrmanent which had been held in Beijing. North Korea has boycotted those talks for over a year.
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