26 March 2012

News Story: Obama - Unclear Who is Running North Korea

By STEPHEN COLLINSON

SEOUL — U.S. President Barack Obama said March 25 it was unclear who was “calling the shots” in North Korea under its new young leader and stepped up demands for Pyongyang to abort its planned rocket launch.

Obama stood with South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to present a united front against the communist North, hours after staring into what he termed a “time warp” as he visited the  last land border left over from the Cold War.

The U.S. leader also had some unusually public criticism of China for its failure to induce its North Korean ally to open its nuclear program to inspections and end years of “provocations” and “bad behavior”.

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