UN slaps sanctions on North Korea

United Nations/Seoul, Reuters—The United Nations imposed new sanctions on North Korea aimed at curtailing its nuclear and ballistic missile programs and China, the isolated regime's only major ally, said it wanted the measures fully implemented. The sanctions were approved just hours after North Korea threatened the United States with a preemptive nuclear strike, a largely empty warning since experts believe Pyongyang does not have the capability to hit the US mainland. With tensions hig...

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