UN sanctions Norks, US says don't worry

CNN:

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council have agreed on a resolution that would expand and tighten sanctions on North Korea, two senior Western diplomats at the United Nations said.

The members -- the United States, China, Russia, the United Kingdom and France -- reached agreement while working with Japan and South Korea.

The council was to convene later Wednesday for consultations.

On Tuesday, President Obama's envoy to the secretive communist state said the United States will consider expanding its options in dealing with North Korea amid rising tensions. But U.S. special envoy Stephen Bosworth said accusations by Pyongyang that its nuclear and missile tests were in response to American aggression were "simply groundless."

"Quite to the contrary, we have no intention to invade North Korea or to change its regime through force and we have made this clear ... repeatedly," Bosworth said during a speech to the Korean Society in New York on Tuesday night.

North Korea has recently conducted a nuclear test, fired test rockets, and threatened U.S. and South Korean ships near its territorial waters.

"North Korea's recent actions to develop a nuclear capacity and an intercontinental ballistic missile capacity will require that we expand our consideration of possible responses, including our force posture and options for extended deterrence," Bosworth said.

"However, the North Korean claim to be responding to a threat or a hostile policy by the United States is simply groundless."

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Got that Norks? We are not going to do anything other than pass resolutions and stay on the strategic defensive. Talk about a mixed message.