Pretty funny that a country that dropped out of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is going to be heading up the Disarmament Body of the UN, and the UN wonders why many people have such a poor opinion of it?
Not From the Onion - WSJ.com
Another Turtle Bay Milestone
North Korea will chair a U.N. arms control agency.
"If the United Nations did not exist, could a satirist invent it? We have our doubts. In this week's installment of our "Your U.N. at Work" series: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea—aka Kim Jong Il's dungeon—has assumed the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament. The U.N.-backed body, based in Geneva, calls itself "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community."
As our readers apparently know better than the folks who run the U.N., North Korea is the world's foremost weapons proliferator. Pyongyang builds its own nuclear weapons in contravention of its treaty commitments and has sold missile and atomic know-how to other rogue regimes in violation of U.N. sanctions. One of its favored clients, Iran, warmly welcomed the North Korean presidency. Tehran's ambassador wanted to "assure [North Korea] of my delegation's full support and cooperation." No doubt."
Not From the Onion - WSJ.com
Another Turtle Bay Milestone
North Korea will chair a U.N. arms control agency.
"If the United Nations did not exist, could a satirist invent it? We have our doubts. In this week's installment of our "Your U.N. at Work" series: The Democratic People's Republic of Korea—aka Kim Jong Il's dungeon—has assumed the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament. The U.N.-backed body, based in Geneva, calls itself "the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community."
As our readers apparently know better than the folks who run the U.N., North Korea is the world's foremost weapons proliferator. Pyongyang builds its own nuclear weapons in contravention of its treaty commitments and has sold missile and atomic know-how to other rogue regimes in violation of U.N. sanctions. One of its favored clients, Iran, warmly welcomed the North Korean presidency. Tehran's ambassador wanted to "assure [North Korea] of my delegation's full support and cooperation." No doubt."
