UNITED
NATIONS, June
21 – North
Korea's UN
Ambassador Sin
Son-ho on
Friday
called for the
dismantling of
the decades
old “UN
Command” in
South Korea.
He quoted
former UN
Secretaries
General
Boutros
Boutros
Ghali and Kofi
Annan that it
is not really
a “UN” force.
When
called on for
a question by
Sin Son-ho,
Inner City
Press asked if
he
knew the view
of current
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon, a
former
South Korean
foreign
minister, and
if the UN
could itself
dismantle
the UN Command
as a mis-use
of the UN
name. Video
here from
Minute 35:34.
Sin
Son-ho replied
that the call
for
dismantling is
in the first
instance
to the US; if
no action is
taken, North
Korea will ask
the General
Assembly to
act.
The
problem with
that is that
GA resolutions
have no legal
effect. In the
Security
Council, the
US could veto
any
resolution.
Sin
Son-ho's press
conference was
standing room
only, with
photographers
clicking and
reporters
shouting
questions. Sin
Son-ho did not
call on
the old UN
Correspondents
Association
first but they
insisted
on it,
as they did
earlier this
year with Evo
Morales, click
here for that.
UNCA's
2013 president
Pamela Falk of
CBS, once the
first question
was
re-directed to
her, asked a
pre-formulated
question about
the US
position.
Then, when Sin
Son-ho called
on Inner City
Press and it
thanked him on
behalf of the
new Free
UN Coalition
for Access,
he
spoke of his
General
Assembly plan.
A
Japanese
journalist
emphasized
that the
sanctions are
from the
“international
community.”
Sin Son-ho
urged
countries not
to
follow the US
in
“blackmail.”
Inner
City Press by
Twitter sought
response from
the US Mission
to the UN
and its
Ambassador
Susan Rice.
Watch this
site.
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