{"id":43612,"date":"2010-07-23T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/2010\/07\/23\/clinton-urges-asia-to-get-tough-on-north-korea\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T10:09:00","slug":"clinton-urges-asia-to-get-tough-on-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2010\/07\/23\/clinton-urges-asia-to-get-tough-on-north-korea.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton urges Asia to get tough on North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt\">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Asia on Friday to vigorously apply sanctions against North Korea, saying Pyongyang&#8217;s belligerent actions marked a clear regional threat, Reuters repords.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton, speaking in Hanoi at the Asia-Pacific&#8217;s biggest security dialogue, also called on Myanmar&#8217;s neighbors to pressure the country&#8217;s military rulers for democratic reforms, and said Asia must join the global community in sending a &#8220;clear signal&#8221; to Iran to rein in its nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One measure of the strength of a community of nations is how it responds to threats to its members, neighbors and region,&#8221; Clinton told the 27-member ASEAN Regional Forum, which includes regional powers China, Japan and Russia along with the United States, European Union and Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton on Wednesday unveiled new U.S. sanctions against North Korea, which both Washington and Seoul blame for the March sinking of a South Korean warship which killed 46 sailors and sharpened tensions over Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear programme.<\/p>\n<p>The new U.S. sanctions, which target North Korea&#8217;s ruling elite, build on earlier United Nations sanctions which imposed broad curbs on dealings with North Korea in hopes of persuading it to abandon its atomic ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton said it was essential Asian nations enforce these sanctions to encourage North Korea &#8220;to take the steps it must&#8221; to stop nuclear development and seek real peace with South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton also urged Asia-Pacific ministers to put more pressure on Myanmar &#8212; a member of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) which anchors the forum &#8212; to enact real democratic reforms and allow elections later this year which will be both free and credible.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Asia on Friday to vigorously apply sanctions against&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10,3,11],"tags":[13544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}