North Korea Nuclear Test: Pyongyang Defies UN Resolutions
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon |
The thought often occurs
to me how disgustingly hypocritical the "International
Community" and its mouthpiece media circus actually are. I saw
the contribution made by Susan Rice at the UN, and could not help
but compare her comments and the philosophy behind them, between what
she said about the Palestinian UN membership application (and the
result), to what she said yesterday about the North Korean atomic
test.
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| U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice |
Couple this with the almost hysterical reaction from Sky News,
BBC News 24, numerous other television channels and countless
"newspapers" around the world, condemning North Korea's
action and threatening all sorts of retaliation ranging from even
more draconian sanctions to the implied threat of armed intervention
with the words "to take all necessary measures" in response
to "the defiance of UN Resolutions". To me, it is not a
question of whether North Korea should or should not have and test
nuclear weapons, or whether their testing of rockets is for military
or civilian purposes. It is a question of double standards and
hypocrisy, when it comes to the response to “defiance of UN
resolutions”. We have seen this feeble cliché used as an excuse
for going to war, as in the case of Iraq, or for the imposition of
punitive economic and financial sanctions as in the case of Iran or
Syria. The commonality about these examples, is the fact that
sanctions will only apply to those countries considered by the
“International Community” as a threat, implied or otherwise, to
their position of influence in any particular area, and secondly that
ordinary people will bear the consequences of the hardships resulting
from the deprivation of food, medicines, and other essential
materials from their every day lives.
Compare this to the
growing list of UN Resolutions that Israel has defied or even
completely ignored over the years. Resolutions demanding the
withdrawal of occupation forces from Palestine, resolutions demanding
the end of settlement building projects in the occupied territories,
the lifting of the blockade of Gaza, the list is almost endless. All
have fallen on deaf ears in Tel Aviv, and defiance of the UN by
Israel continues. Yet, there is no demand by the “International
Community”, for the imposition of sanctions or economic isolation
of Tel Aviv to bring about compliance, or any implied threat of
military intervention “to take all necessary measures”. Israel is
an ally and thereby enjoys immunity from the criticism of the UN. As
I said previously, the “International Community” is disgustingly
hypocritical when it comes to self interest and double standards.
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