Snow Stresses “strength in numbers” on North Korea Situation

ABC’s Karen Travers reports: Snow had nothing new to add to anything today because, as he said several times, he just doesn’t have any information on possible sanctions or where discussion on that issue are going. Snow said there has been a whole menu of options discussed in recent weeks but he couldn’t get into them at this time.

Snow said the US tried one-on-one negotiations in the 1990s and that didn’t work so they are approaching this by working with allies in the region who are stake holders in this issue. He said the US is with the UN on this – he wouldn’t engage on what would happen if the UN comes back with something the US does not agree with

He stressed "strength in numbers" on the negotiations on the way forward.

Snow couldn’t talk about specific sanctions or whether they would even work given the already isolated status of North Korea. He said that there are ways to impose sanctions on North Korea that do not hurt the North Korean people, such as military industrial interests but again could not be more specific.