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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush said Saturday that the U.N. Security Council had sent a "swift and tough" message to North Korea that its claimed detonation of a nuclear bomb was unacceptable to the world.
Bush spoke shortly after the council unanimously approved a resolution penalizing the reclusive communist nation for its announcement the test on October 9.
"This action by the United Nations, which was swift and tough, says that we are united in our determination to see to it that the Korean Peninsula is nuclear-weapons free," the president told reporters in brief remarks from the White House's South Lawn. He then left for the presidential retreat at Camp David in Maryland.
Bush said North Korea still had a chance for "a better way forward" and promised economic assistance to the impoverished country from the United States and others if it would verifiably end its nuclear weapons program.
"The message today, however, says to the leader of North Korea that the world is united in our opposition to his nuclear weapons plans," Bush said.
The president took no questions. He never referred by name to Kim Jong Il, whose country Bush had branded a member of an "axis of evil."
The resolution demands that North Korea eliminate all its nuclear weapons and come back to six-party talks, which include the U.S., that are aimed at ending its program.
The U.S. and Japan made several concessions to win support from skeptical council members, particularly China and Russia.
North Korea immediately rejected the resolution, and its U.N. ambassador walked out of the council chamber. Ambassador Pak Gil Yon said North Korea wants talks but warned that it will consider increased U.S. pressure a declaration of war.
The U.S. has refused to talk one on one with North Korea except on the margins of six-nation disarmament talks that also include China, South Korea, Japan and Russia.
Bush is sending Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to China, South Korea and Japan this coming to try to ensure there are no fissures between North Korea's neighbors and the United States. Rice and the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, also were appearing on the Sunday morning television talk shows to bolster the U.S. case.
The North Korea crisis was the subject of the president's weekly radio address on Saturday. Democrats responded by saying that the apparent test is evidence Bush's approach to North Korea has failed.
"Under President Bush and this Republican Congress' watch, our country has become less safe -- both domestically and abroad," said congressional candidate Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania. "We have seen the number of terrorist attacks increase around the world. We have seen North Korea and Iran -- two members of the president's axis of evil -- enhance their nuclear weapons capabilities."
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