North Korea – UN Security Council’s – 15 : 0; – Choking a Country into Submission
By Peter Koenig
December 26, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
(DPRK) is being choked into submission if
not starvation by the UN Security Council,
by a vote of 15 : 0; i.e. unanimously. None
of the 15 UNSC states, let alone the five
permanent members, have had the guts to say
no to a killer Resolution, drafted and
proposed by the United States of America, a
name that increasingly stands for
international rogue and crime nation.
The New York Times reports on 22 December
2017 - “President Trump has used just about
every lever you can use, short of starving
the people of North Korea to death, to
change their behavior,” the White House
homeland security adviser, Thomas P. Bossert,
said Tuesday. “And so, we don’t have a lot
of room left here to apply pressure to
change their behavior.”
Two immediate questions come to mind –
first, who is Trump to blackmail the UNSC
into punishing nations which do not bend to
the empire’s wishes? Yes, blackmailing,
because that’s exactly what is categorically
part of the chief rogue’s international
behavior. Case in point is the recent UN
Resolution to nullify Trump’s unilateral
decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel’s
capital, when he, the Donald, threatening he
would watch closely who would vote against
the US, in view of punishing those nations
monetarily or with other sanctions; and
second, how come Russia and China went along
with this literally genocidal program of
sanctions contained in this UNSC Resolution?
Both Russia and China know that Washington’s
arguments against the DPRK are based on a
web of lies. That everything coming out of
Washington is a lie, or untruth, or omission
of facts – is well known around the globe.
But in this case, where two ascending
super-powers, Russia and China have the veto
right to say NO to these illegal sanctions,
it begs the question, why’ didn’t they use
their veto?
Even more so, since Russia and China are
both also ‘sanctioned’ by Washington for not
‘behaving’, and because Russia and China are
natural allies of North Korea. – Why were
they going along with Washington’s
blackmail? – A veto could have sent a clear
message to the sort of preposterous Nikki
Haleys and Donald Trumps of this world, that
there is no more fear of the devil, but that
the power plates are clearly shifting away
from Washington.
Was it out of fear that the madman could
possibly press the red bottom, if provoked?
– Voting with the madman is certainly no
reason to believe that the Mad Man will not
press the nuclear bottom. – Then, what kind
of diplomacy is it? – The fear of more
sanctions directed at Russia and China? This
would be outright ridiculous, as both
countries, founders of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (SCO), are almost
fully detached from the western dollar
economy and are heading a new economy that
already comprises about half of the world’s
population and one third of the globe’s
economic output. Hence, they can function
fully independently from the west. There are
no fears of sanctions either.
Then why?
Maybe because they, Russia and China, want
to show the world that no matter how they
vote, they will do what they deem correct,
like in this case not adhering to the
sanction, as they will not let North Korea’s
people, their friends and allies, suffocate
to death. This would tell those nations who
still do not dare contradicting the US of A
– “Don’t be afraid, we are on your side.”
Already a month ago, Reuters reported that
according to the North Korean representative
at the UN Geneva, those who most suffer from
the sanctions are women and children. This
is a classic. It applies almost everywhere
when sanctions are dished out. For example,
in Iraq where under the Clinton sanctions
program, following a 1995 UN report,
“576,000 Iraqi children may have died since
the end of the Persian Gulf war because of
economic sanctions imposed by the Security
Council, according to two scientists who
surveyed the country for the Food and
Agriculture Organization.” In addition, the
study found “steeply rising malnutrition
among the young, suggesting that more
children will be at risk in the coming
years.” – Indeed, close to a million Iraqis
have died as the result of a decade long
US-imposed UN sanctions scheme.
Will the world allow similar numbers – or
higher – of people to die in North Korea,
just because the DPRK has opted to defend
herself against the self-proclaimed
exceptional nation that has for over 60
years refused to sign a peace agreement and
instead constantly threatened North Korea
with annual high-powered military war games
along the Korean Peninsula?
North Korea has done no harm to any other
nation. Indeed, North Korea does not intend
to start a war with anyone. North Korea has
had the courage and strength to rebuild as a
socialist nation in almost full isolation
from a 1953 US-devastated country with the
loss from then one third of the population,
about 3 million people. Does anyone wonder
why North Korea has opted to defend herself
– come what may?
And does anybody realize, including the 15
UNSC countries having condemned the DPRK to
starve, that North Korea has declared
numerous times that she wants nothing more
than Peace, that she is willing to sign a
nuclear weapons disarmament program along
with all the other nuclear powers; and she
is ready to negotiate, as long as Washington
stops its high-handed and dangerous military
maneuvers and jet fighter territorial
overflights.?
Why would North Korea, or any nation for
that matter – not have the same right as the
US, UK, Russia, China, France, Israel,
India, Pakistan, and the NATO member nuclear
weapons sharing states of Belgium, Germany,
Italy, Netherlands and Turkey – all of which
have acquired atomic weapons for alleged
“defense purposes”?
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 21st Century (China), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! - Essays from the Resistance.
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