debate Tuesday, with China agreeing to punishment but not the severe U.S.-backed sanctions that it said would be too crushing for its impoverished communist ally.
Scientists and other governments, meanwhile, suggested that Monday's underground test was a partial failure, producing a smaller blast than planned.
The Bush administration asked the U.N.
Security Council to related financial assets. All imports would be inspected too, to filter out materials that could be made into nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.
North Koreans one-on-one, but Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured the North that the U.
S. would not attack.
nuclear weapons to stave off an Iraq-style U.
S. invasion. President Bush, she told CNN, has told "the North they want.
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Tuesday's round of talks at the Security Council, but said differences remained in advance of Wednesday's meeting.
"Look, we don't have complete agreement on this yet, that's hardly a news flash, but we're making narrow some of the differences we do have," Bolton said.
China, which reacted to Monday's blast with a strong against U.
S. forces stationed in South Korea, said it the United States and especially Japan were demanding.
block financial transactions.
They also oppose a new 1970s and '80s.
country. But I think you cannot ask by this resolution to Guangya told The Associated Press.
He said the Security they have to "be appropriate.
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