Commenting on North Korea’s attack and sinking of the Cheonan with 46 South Korean sailors killed, President Obama said this past weekend at the G-20 summit in Toronto that “our main focus right now is in the U.N. Security Council making sure that there is a crystal-clear acknowledgement that North Korea engaged in belligerent behavior that is unacceptable to the international community.”
Speaking in Prague a year ago, just after North Korea tested a rocket that could be used in a long-range missile, the president memorably declared: “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”
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