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July 21, 2010

US Announces New Sanctions Against North Korea
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that Washington will
impose new sanctions on North Korea in a bid to stem the regime’s
nuclear activities. Clinton made the announcement one day after she and
Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited the armed border that has divided
the Korean peninsula for sixty years. On Sunday, the US and South Korea
are planning to launch a major military exercise in the Sea of Japan as
a warning to North Korea. North Korea denounced the drill as "very
dangerous sabre-rattling".



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