| As North
Korea Fires More Missiles US Insists China
Will Cooperate As If UN Is Not Failing
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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UN GATE / SDNY,
June 7 –
North Korea is on a roll,
firing missiles in disregard
of resolutions of the
toothless UN Security Council.
On June 7,
US Department of State Special
Representative for the
Democratic People's Republic
of Korea (and simultaneously
ambassador to Indonesia) Sung
Kim held a press call on which
he insisted that North Korea
is an "area for cooperation"
with China.
When asked what
the US will do if or when
North Korea does a real
nuclear test, Sung Kim said
the response would have a UN
Security Council aspect. What,
with another double veto?
This was Sung
Kim's second such call in two
months; on April 6 he spoke
about a US draft resolution on
North Korea as if it had a
chance in the failed UN
Security Council.
But of course it
didn't. Double veto. Why
pretend?
On April 5, Ukraine's
Zelenskyy correctly said that
the UN and its Security
Council have failed on
Somalia, Syria, Yemen,
Afghanistan and Libya, and
called for it to be dissolved
(like the League of Nations).
Video & commentary here.
He could have
added: North Korea.
While some say that at least
the UN is reporting on North
Korea, for example on
crypto-currency thefts and
sanctions, these reports are
routinely blocked or undermine
by UNSG Anotonio Guterres'
good friend China. The UN is a
failure, and bans the Press
that asks. Inner City Press,
banned, has gotten no response
or even explanation from UN
official Melissa Fleming, even
to a pro bono letter from the
Quinn Enamuel law firm. This
letter was provide to
the State Department's Laurel
Rapp, and the US Mission -
still nothing. We'll
have more on this.
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