U.S. presents "unprecedented sanctions" resolution against N. Korea

U.S. presents "unprecedented sanctions" resolution against N. Korea

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power is interviewed by Kyodo News in New York on Feb. 25, 2016. Describing a draft resolution Washington introduced to the U.N. Security Council the same day to enhance sanctions against North Korea, Power said the document "goes well beyond anything we have done for North Korea, anything we did at all for Iran, which of course had a devastating effect on the Iranian economy." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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