OMG: North Korea named head of UN nuclear disarmament body
Just when you thought that the United Nations could not get any crazier.... North Korea has been named to head the organization's nuclear disarmament body. Nuclear-armed North Korea has assumed the presidency of a key United Nations disarmament body — despite facing UN Security Council sanctions over its weapons programs.Read the whole thing. You have to love God's sense of humor, eh?
The development comes in the same week the UN defended its decision to support Iran's holding of an international "anti-terrorism" conference — which saw participants declaring that Western powers were the international terrorists.
UN officials point out that North Korean ambassador So Se Pyong takes on the presidency of the Geneva-based Conference on Disarmament under rules that say the chair will rotate among all 65 member states in alphabetical order.
But critics said Wednesday the rules should be changed when they allow the body — whose mandate is in part to push for world nuclear disarmament — to be led by a country that the West considers to be an international nuclear renegade.
"No system should tolerate such a fundamental conflict of interests," said Hillel Neuer, executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch, which also led protests against the UN's input at the Iranian "anti-terrorism" conference.
"It's common sense that a disarmament body should not be headed by the world's arch-villain on illegal weapons and nuclear proliferation, notorious for exporting missiles and nuclear know-how to fellow rogue regimes around the globe."
Labels: North Korea, nuclear disarmament, United Nations
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:29 AM
3 Comments:
They should have named Iran the co-chair.
Love it how the UN mocks our values.
It makes Dr. Strangelove look sane!
I suspect this has less to do with Divine Humor and more with Divine Exasperation with Sodom-on-East-River.
North Korea chairing the Conference on Disarmament. Iran chairing that human rights committee. What next? Calling in the Mafia to advise on combating international organized crime?
Hmmmm.......Carter visiting N.Korea.....My guess N.Korea might demand for Israel to renounce Nuclear weapons.
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