FishPoolDC: Our Insider's Notes from Today's Press Briefing

Prof. Rice Comes to Washington: To round out his week of guests, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs had U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice speak to the class today. She outlined the recently passed resolution on sanctions for North Korea, citing five main points in the document: 1) complete embargo on arms; 2) new financial sanctions; 3) inspection of suspected weapons shipments at sea; 4) added entities for an “assets freeze”; and 5) a stepped-up monitoring process. Rice called the unanimous resolution “unprecedented,” “innovative,” and “very robust”
with “teeth that will bite.”