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NKorea has no friends left: Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned North Korea Sunday that even its traditional allies had turned against it and that the communist state's rogue behavior will no longer "be rewarded." Clinton, who just returned from a tour of Asia, said China and Burma, longstanding supporters of the regime in Pyongyang, were aligned with international efforts to force North Korea to end its nuclear weapons and missile programs. "They don't have any friends left," Clinton said during an interview on NBC television's "Meet the Press" program. "I think they are very isolated now, I saw that when I was at the ASEAN meeting, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations," she said, referring to a gathering of the group last week in Thailand. During one session, Clinton recounted, a representative of North Korea "launched a broadside attack on the United States." "Everyone else just didn't even listen to him," she said. Clinton notably praised China, North Korea's main backer for decades, for being "extremely positive and productive" in helping confront Pyongyang since the regime backtracked from agreements to give up its nuclear program and broke off international negotiations on the issue. "We have been extremely gratified by their forward leaning commitment to sanctions and the private messages they have conveyed to the North Koreans," Clinton said of the Chinese. She also noted that "even Burma," an isolated regime with ties to North Korea, now backed UN sanctions against that government. North Korea again on Sunday vowed to retaliate against tough new UN sanctions put in place recently after it conducted a number of missile tests and carried out its second underground nuclear explosion. But Clinton insisted North Korea had no option but to return to the negotiating table and she told the regime it should not hope to extract concessions from Washington by being belligerent. "We want to make clear to North Korea that their behavior is not going to be rewarded," she said. "Those days are over."
by Staff Writers
 Seoul (AFP) July 26, 2009
 North Korea's defence minister promised to retaliate against tough new UN sanctions put in place following its missile and nuclear tests, state media reported Sunday.

Kim Yong-Chun warned of possible all-out war amid "a touch-and-go situation" created by what he called reckless UN sanctions and US-South Korean provocations, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

"We will mercilessly and resolutely counter the enemy's 'sanctions' with retaliation, its 'all-out war' with all-out war," Kim, minister of the People's Armed Forces, said in a report carried by the agency.

The communist state, however, regularly issues aggressive statements and rhetoric against its neighbours and the US.

Kim, speaking at a public meeting in Pyongyang to mark the anniversary of the 1950-1953 Korean War, added: "We will deal unimaginably deadly blows at the US imperialists and the South Korean puppets if they ignite a war."

He did not, however, elaborate further.

North Korea on Sunday separately denounced an annual upcoming US-South Korean military exercise as preparing to invade the communist country.

The Ulchi Freedom Guardian (UFG) drill, scheduled for August 17-27, "lays bare the black-hearted aim lurking behind 'peace keeping' and 'dialogue'", KCNA said in a separate dispatch.

Tensions have intensified following the communist state's missile and nuclear tests in recent weeks, resulting in a new flurry of UN sanctions amid a renewed standoff with the US.

Pyongyang quit the six-party talks aimed at ending its nuclear weapons programme after the UN Security Council censured it for a long-range rocket launch in April. In May it also staged its second nuclear test.

The Council has since imposed tougher sanctions, including an expanded arms embargo and beefed up inspections of air, sea and land shipments going to and from North Korea.

A travel ban has also been imposed on Pyongyang officials suspected of being involved in the country's nuclear and missile programmes.

The United States has urged the international community to continue to pressure North Korea to return to the six-party talks -- made up of the two Koreas, the US, China, Japan and Russia.

North Korea's UN envoy, Sin Son-Ho, said Friday Pyongyang was not opposed to negotiations with the US, but would not return to the six-party talks.

"Pyongyang intends to strike a deal at bilateral talks with Washington, seeking to circumvent US-led sanctions imposed on the communist regime," Yang Moo-Jin, professor of Seoul's University of North Korean Studies, told AFP.

US and South Korean military authorities said last week they had informed North Korea of their plan to hold the joint military drill, which will involve 10,000 US soldiers and an unspecified number of South Korean troops.

The drill involves computer-simulated war games designed to improve the allies' ability to defend South Korea from attack, they said.

North Korea regularly denounces such exercises as preparations for an invasion of the communist state.

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