UN Resolution
Quite a coincidence that South Korean Ban Ki-moon is elected UN Secretary-General the same week as his crazy communist cousins in the North decide to a test a nuke. As a slap on the wrists for their bomb testing the UN security council has passed a resolution, which, among other requirements, prevents the shipment of all things nasty and death-causing into North Korea. Part of the resolution, courtesy of the US, is the following provision:
UN members are banned from exporting luxury goods to North Korea.
A nice little symbolic up-yours to the North Korean ruling elite by the yanks. Funny though. The North Korean rulers must have skipped the chapter where it says everyone is treated equal in a communist state.
Update: ban all trade in luxury goods, including the lobster and fine French wine cherished by supreme leader Kim Jong-il.
UN members are banned from exporting luxury goods to North Korea.
A nice little symbolic up-yours to the North Korean ruling elite by the yanks. Funny though. The North Korean rulers must have skipped the chapter where it says everyone is treated equal in a communist state.
Update: ban all trade in luxury goods, including the lobster and fine French wine cherished by supreme leader Kim Jong-il.
posted by Engels at 1:01 pm
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I'll tell u one thing, I'm getting sick of hearing that "I'm so lonely" song from that Team America movie. It was funny the first time!!!
Why does the UN take so long to make these resolutions???
Bureaucracy and conflict of interests, I imagine, Martini. The (outdated) UN sercurity council consists of 15 members, of which 5 are permament seats and have veto powers - meaning they can say "no" anytime, and everyone else has to agree. Thus, getting the serucity council in agreement is often tricky.
The US and "communist" China both have veto powers. China, who financed N Korea during the war and has continued to be their largest trading partner since, doesn't want their hot-tempered neighbour falling to pieces. During this resolution, it was the wording of the resolution that was the cause of the hold up. Wording things like "how do we enforce these sanctions".
In fact, the UN security council rarely agrees. They agreed for the first Gulf War, I think, and that's because Russian was behaving themselves - they used to vote opposite to the yanks during the Cold War.
However, there is call for reform. Germany and Japan (second and third largest UN contributors) want on board as do India and Brazil with their large populations. Time will tell.
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