当然
Just when you thought things might change, the same ol' shit hits the same ol' fan and splatters all over the news, again. China, in a shocking move (so shocking!) has stated that it will veto the current motion being put through the United Nations Security Council (veto!) in response to North Korea's missile launches. China says that the sanctions, strong words, and UN Charter Chapter 7 spanking called for by the Japan-tabled proposal will come down too hard on North Korea, which, as we all know, is actually quite a schoolyard wimp when it comes to surviving isolation.
*cough*
The folks in charge over yonder in the Middle Kingdom took this very same position last week and, after some deliberation, statements of sympathy for U.S. and Japan, and mild condemnation of North Korea's missile tests, it seems they have decided not to budge. Instead, they've offered their own set of demands that, if all goes according to lunar caldendar, the U.S. and Japan will probably reject.
Coincidentally, a talk radio station (News 95.7) that broadcasts out of Halifax, St. John and Moncton contacted me over the weekend to see if I could weigh in as an "expert" on their North Korea segment. Also coincidentally, but not unexpectedly, I was out of town, missed the message, and could not take them up on their offer.
Ah, the story of life.
In other news, the Earth continues to spin around the sun.
*cough*
The folks in charge over yonder in the Middle Kingdom took this very same position last week and, after some deliberation, statements of sympathy for U.S. and Japan, and mild condemnation of North Korea's missile tests, it seems they have decided not to budge. Instead, they've offered their own set of demands that, if all goes according to lunar caldendar, the U.S. and Japan will probably reject.
Coincidentally, a talk radio station (News 95.7) that broadcasts out of Halifax, St. John and Moncton contacted me over the weekend to see if I could weigh in as an "expert" on their North Korea segment. Also coincidentally, but not unexpectedly, I was out of town, missed the message, and could not take them up on their offer.
Ah, the story of life.
In other news, the Earth continues to spin around the sun.
posted by C. LaRoche at
18:53
3...thoughts from my fellow Saturnalians:
LaRoche damnit why were you away!
Great post on NK today.
This is why the F-ing security council doesn't work and this is why NK feels it can do as it pleases because nobody's going to be able to do a THING about it.
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Forward Looking Canadian, at Wed Jul 12, 10:15:00 p.m. ADT
People who don't know NK poli shit feel stupid on your blog.
I feel stupid.
p.s. They should have called up the other LaRoche sibling in town to fill in. I mean, I'm totally an expert on North Korea.
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Anonymous, at Thu Jul 13, 12:20:00 p.m. ADT
It may come across as difficult, but it is not. Basically the world wants to punish North Korea, but Russia and China do not want to (for various reasons). So, when the United States brings a detention slip for North Korea into the United Nations Security Council, which is where punishments are usually doled out because they get international authority, China vetos the detention and says it should be less severe.
This is bad for the United States, because China is the only country outside of South Korea that actually trades with North Korea. The U.S. could impose its own sanctions on North Korea, but the U.S. doesn't trade with North Korea, so they would be meaningless. They want China to do something, but China says everyone is being to hard on Kim Jong-Il.
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C. LaRoche, at Thu Jul 13, 04:37:00 p.m. ADT
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