The U.N. recently appointed North Korea as head of its Conference on Disarmament, a 65-member arms control forum. Seriously? Perhaps the U.N. doesn’t remember that their very own Security Council has imposed sanctions on North Korea for its development of nuclear weapons and has repeatedly condemned the country for launching rockets.
“Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch. “It’s asking the fox to guard the chickens, and damages the U.N.’s credibility.”
“While the U.N. will likely defend North Korea’s appointment as simply an automatic rotation,” said Neuer, “no system should tolerate such a fundamental conflict of interests. 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.”
What do you think?
12:28 pm
The U.N. has not only outlived its usefulness, but has become a convenient way for corrupt people to advance their agendas. The world would be better off without such hypocrites!
11:58 am
The UN is curupt! The largest percent are curupt Muslums! In my opinion!
10:09 am
So U.N. is an acronym for Universal Nincompoops, Undeniable Nitwits, Unbelievable Numskulls…
6:10 pm
Foxes guarding the henhouse just about sums it up!
WTF
4:30 pm
You mean they beat out Iran?