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Wed 06 Jun 2010Obama extends N Korea sanctions
President Barack Obama has extended US economic sanctions on North Korea for another year, citing the continuing threat posed by Pyongyang's nuclear program, the White House said.
In a notice posted on the White House website, Mr Obama said he was renewing the sanctions because "the existence and the risk of proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula continued to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat" to the United States.
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