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Obama warns it may be time for more NorthKorea sanctionsIn a display of unity against North Korea’s provocations, President Barack Obama andSouth Korean President Park Geun-hye warned Pyongyang on Friday that it could facetougher sanctions if it follows through with threats to launch a fourth nuclear test.

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In a display of unity against North Korea’s provocations, President Barack

Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye warned Pyongyang on

Friday that it could face tougher sanctions if it follows through with threats to

launch a fourth nuclear test.

Striking an even harsher tone than Obama, Park also suggested any test would

trigger an undesirable nuclear arms race in the region and render further nuclear

negotiations pointless.

North Korea will get “nothing except further isolation” if it proceeds with its test,

Obama said at a joint news conference in Seoul. But he also acknowledged

there are limits to what effects additional penalties can have on the country.

“North Korea already is the most isolated country in the world, by far,” Obama

said. “Its people suffer terribly because of the decisions its leaders have made.

And we are not going to find a magic bullet that solves this problem overnight.”

Still, he said, it’s important to look at new ways to pressure North Korea,

including applying sanctions that have “even more bite.”

Park added that such a test would bring “fundamental change” to the region’s

security landscape and trigger a nuclear arms race as countries hurry to match

the North’s nuclear capabilities. She said such an outcome would make it

fruitless to resume negotiations with North Korea aimed at getting it to abandon

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its nuclear weapons and its nuclear program.

In 2009, North Korea walked away from six-party talks with the U.S., South

Korea, Japan, Russia and China that offered financial incentives in exchange for

denuclearization.

Park said her government has assessed that the North is “fully ready now” to

conduct another nuclear test.

“This is a very tense situation,” she said through a translator. “President

Obama’s visit to South Korea sends a strong message to North Korea that its

provocative acts cannot be tolerated.”

Obama said the missile technology and nuclear weapons that the North is

developing pose a direct threat to South Korea and Japan, two staunch U.S.

allies in the region, as well as to the United States.

“We can’t waver in our intention. We have to make sure that, in strong concert

with our allies, that we are continuing to press North Korea to change its

approach,” Obama said.

The White House said it was keeping close tabs on activity at North Korea’s

nuclear test site. The website 38 North, which closely monitors North Korea, said

commercial satellite imagery from Wednesday showed increased movement of

vehicles and materials near what are believed to be entrances to two completed

tunnels at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in what could be advanced

preparations for an underground atomic explosion. But predicting such tests is

notoriously difficult; the most crucial activity happens underground, out of aerial

view.

Park also called on China to use its influence to dissuade North Korea from

going ahead with the test. China is North Korea’s closest ally in the region.

Touching on another sensitive regional issue, Obama gave voice to South

Korea’s grievances with Japan by calling Japan’s use of Korean “comfort

women” during World War II a terrible and egregious violation of human rights.

Historical issues have become a major rift between two of the staunchest U.S.

allies in Asia, and Obama has taken on the task of trying to bring the two sides

closer.

“Those women were violated in ways that even in the midst of war was

shocking,” Obama said. “They deserve to be heard. They deserve to be

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Obama, and officials pay a silent tribute for victims of South Korea's sunken ferry 'Sewol,' during ameeting with South Korean President Park Geun-Hye.


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respected.”

At the same time, he said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe recognizes that

the past must be acknowledged in full. Obama urged both Japan and South

Korea to move beyond the heartache of the past, noting that their interests “so

clearly converge” on other fronts.

Obama arrived in South Korea on Friday morning, a little more than a week after

a ferry carrying more than 300 people, most of them students from one high

school near Seoul, sank off the country’s southwestern coast. He noted that he

was visiting at a time of “great sorrow” and offered America’s deepest

condolences.

“So many were young students with their entire lives ahead of them,” Obama

said, invoking his two daughters, both close in age to many of the ferry victims. “I

can only imagine what the parents are going through at this point, the incredible

heartache.”

He said he was donating a magnolia tree from the White House lawn to the high

school in honor of the lives that were lost and as a symbol of decades of

friendship between the U.S. and South Korea.

After arriving at the Blue House, Park’s official residence, Obama presented her

with an American flag that he said flew atop the White House on April 16 — the

day the ferry began to list. He also called on the U.S. and South Korean

delegations to observe a moment of silence in honor of the victims.

Most of the ferry’s 29-person crew survived, but 11, including the captain, have

been arrested on suspicion of negligence or abandoning people in need as the

ferry sank. Park recently blasted their actions as “tantamount to murder.”

Accepting the flag, Park drew a parallel between the way Americans pulled

together after 9/11 and the resilience of South Koreans following one of the

worst maritime disasters in her country’s history.

“The Korean people draw great strength from your kindness,” she said.

After a working dinner with Park, the president was to spend the night in South

Korea, the second stop on a four-country Asia swing that includes visits to

Malaysia and the Philippines.

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Past time for more sanctions on N. Korea, Mr. President!

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