North Korea is now president of the UN Nuclear Disarment Body

[Imperial]

You can't make this stuff up....

UNITED NATIONS — 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.
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.

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Does anyone else thinks this is a ridiculous attempt of empathy from the UN?

[charles the hammer]

If your going to call them a renegade, dont give them the presidency, thats obvious, consistency people.

[(s)AINT]

@_@

Something is wrong here

[Last Roman]

[Sir Winston Churchill]

It's like giving criminals the keys to the jail.

[Surgeon]

Duh, who's surprised? I'm sure everyone knows what sort of countries are on the UN human rights council, so how's this out of the ordinary for the UN?

[Veliky Kaiser Theos]

Does that council actually do anything? Iran and NK have been developing weapons just fine.

[skh1]

Does that council actually do anything? Iran and NK have been developing weapons just fine.

Nope, been moribund for a couple of years now —

He [Canadian government envoy Marius Grinius] said it was "not negotiating anything," and had "not been for a very long time."

While the UN bills the conference as the "single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community," others exist — to the point that Grinius signalled the UN body's inertia may in the end seal its own fate.

He argued that the conference was on "life support," and appeared to be proposing its disbandment as he said the body was "fast approaching a historic tipping point."

A key obstacle to progress is the conference's rule that everything must be decided by consensus, which critics say some countries utilize as a de fact veto.

Pakistan, for example, has blocked a long-proposed Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty, which aims to ban the further production of material that can be used to fuel a nuclear bomb.

It's a rotating presidency determined by alphabetical order. North Korea's tenancy of the position will last four weeks.

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[Heathen Hammer]

They might as well just give Kim Noble Award for Human Rights activism.

[Veliky Kaiser Theos]

They might as well just give Kim Noble Award for Human Rights activism.

Glorious Comrade Jong-Il, with the aid of superior Juche "Communism", had done great things for the Korean people, such as boosting industrial productivity enormously (too bad it's for the military, not agriculture) and "inventing" the "double bread with meat" to feed the masses (aka the hamburger).

[SPECTREtm]

They might as well just give Kim Noble Award for Human Rights activism.

If NATO decided to end the North Korean Circus you would likely be among the first here to come to Kim's defence...


Anyway... Why is North Korea even a member of the UN?

[Heathen Hammer]

If NATO decided to end the North Korean Circus you would likely be among the first here to come to Kim's defence...

Meh, if Kim was pro-US you would defend him lol.

[Tiberios]

Meh, if Kim was pro-US you would defend him lol.

Nah Joe, that's the logic you use when you judge a regime. Pro US = bad, anti-US = good. Doesn't mean everybody else uses that logic.

[priam11]

North Korea is best Korea!

[Heathen Hammer]

Nah Joe, that's the logic you use when you judge a regime. Pro US = bad, anti-US = good. Doesn't mean everybody else uses that logic.

Nah, its just that he judges the regime on weather its friendly to US or not.

[Seether]

Sounds like the premise for a South Park episode

[Darth_Revan]

Sounds like the premise for a South Park episode

yes it does, wtf were they thinking

[mrmouth]

I gotta get off this planet.

[alhoon]

Sounds like the premise for a South Park episode

I don't think SPark would go that far.
That the UN went that far is... terrifying.