The UN Security Council has imposed additional wide-ranging sanctions on North Korea in an effort to punish the regime for its recent nuclear test and to force it to return to denuclearisation talks. Unusually, the June 12th resolution was not only tough-sounding but also unanimous; even China was publicly angered by North Korea's latest belligerent outburst. Yet deep divergences remain among the states trying to coax North Korea out of its nuclear-armed isolation. These differences, and mounting uncertainty about what the regime really wants, make it difficult to predict a reduction of tensions any time soon.
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