AP: China inspects North Korean cargo

[Eugene]

China inspects North Korean cargo

By WILLIAM FOREMAN, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 7 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea - China inspected cargo trucks bound for North Korea
on Monday as Australia banned the North's ships from its ports and Japan
considered more sanctions to punish the reclusive nation for its proclaimed
nuclear test.

The Chinese inspections at a border crossing with the North came amid
concerns that Beijing would ignore a call under new U.N. sanctions for nations
to check cargo leaving and arriving from North Korea.

China is a major trader with North Korea and its support is key to the success
of the U.N. measures. Chinese custom officials refused say whether the
inspections were prompted by the U.N. sanctions.

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China — North Korea's biggest trading partner — has balked at the cargo
inspections, saying they would increase tensions.

But on Monday, customs inspectors examined cargo trucks bound for North
Korea in the border city of Dandong. The officers opened the back of each
truck but didn't open individual boxes or bags.

-snip-

Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061016/ap_on_re_as/koreas_nuclear

[confludemocrat]

1. This is for appearances sake while Condi's in the neighborhood

this is bullshit, these people are starved down to nothing, N. Koreans feel their backs are against the wall, and now it is expected the world will help crush them some more.
They aren't going to attack anyone, they just wanted a guarantee that the US will not use nukes on them (a justifiable worry based on the axi of evil rhetoric and past actions by this country to kill hundreds of thousands (Japan) and millions (Vietnam) of asians in the name of "freedom"), which the nut job in the WH refuses to do.