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N KOREA BLAMED FOR DEADLY ATTACKS AND MUST FACE CONSEQUENCES

TOKYO – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Friday the evidence is "overwhelming" that a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean warship and the communist country must face international consequences.
Speaking in Tokyo at the outset of a three-nation Asian trip, Clinton said the U.S., Japan, South Korea and China are consulting on an appropriate reaction after an international investigation blamed North Korea for the deadly attack.

She said the report proves a North Korean sub fired a torpedo that sank the ship, the Cheonan, in March and that it could no longer be "business as usual" in dealing with the matter.
While it was premature to discuss exact options or actions that will be taken in response, Clinton said, it was "important to send a clear message to North Korea that provocative actions have consequences."
"The evidence is overwhelming and condemning. The torpedo that sunk the Cheonan and took the lives of 46 South Korean sailors was fired by a North Korean submarine," she told reporters at a joint press conference with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada.
"We cannot allow this attack on South Korea to go unanswered by the international community," she said.
North Korea denies it was responsible for the sinking and has threatened to retaliate against any attempt to punish it with "all-out war."
North Korea "will regard the present situation as the phase of a war and handle all problems in inter-Korean relations accordingly," Ri Chung Bok, deputy director of the Secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea, said in an interview with broadcaster APTN in Pyongyang.
Clinton's Asian tour, which took her later Friday to China and to South Korea next week, was supposed to focus on U.S.-China economic issues. But that was before Thursday's release of the report which concluded that a North Korean sub was responsible for sinking the South Korean ship on March 26.

Source: AP

N KOREA BLAMED FOR DEADLY ATTACKS AND MUST FACE CONSEQUENCES

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