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U.N. sanctions on N. Korea among U.S. foreign policy achievements: State Dept.
By Hwang Doo-hyong

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Yonhap) -- The State Department Wednesday listed international cooperation to impose sanctions on North Korea for its missile and nuclear tests as one of the key foreign policy achievements this year.

The U.S. has "maintained an international coalition which condemned North Korea's missile and nuclear tests through the adoption of U.S. Security Council Resolution 1874," the department said in a report titled "Strategic Goals and Results."

Among other achievements are a resumption of negotiations with Russia to replace the expiring Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), holding the first round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue to discuss regional security concerns, nonproliferation, and military-to-military relations, the report said.