{"id":104076,"date":"2018-01-01T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=104076"},"modified":"2017-12-28T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T20:09:38","slug":"north-korea-un-security-councils-killer-resolution15-to-0-choking-a-country-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2018\/01\/north-korea-un-security-councils-killer-resolution15-to-0-choking-a-country-into-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea \u2013 UN Security Council\u2019s \u201cKiller Resolution\u201d,15 to 0: Choking a Country into Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Democratic People\u2019s 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<\/strong>, drafted and proposed by the United States of America, a name that increasingly stands for international rogue and crime nation.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Pyonyang\u2019s urban skyline, competing with Manhattan and the Trump Tower?<\/p><\/div>\n

The New York Times reports on 22 December 2017:<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump has used just about every lever you can use, short of starving the people of North Korea to death, to change their behavior,\u201d<\/em> the White House homeland security adviser, Thomas P. Bossert, said Tuesday. \u201cAnd so, we don\u2019t have a lot of room left here to apply pressure to change their behavior.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Two immediate questions come to mind \u2013 first, who is Trump to blackmail the UNSC into punishing nations which do not bend to the empire\u2019s wishes? <\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, blackmailing, because that\u2019s exactly what is categorically part of the chief rogue\u2019s international behavior. Case in point is the recent UN Resolution to nullify Trump\u2019s unilateral decision to declare Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s 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?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Both Russia and China know that Washington\u2019s 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 \u2013 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\u2019 didn\u2019t they use their veto?<\/p>\n

Even more so, since Russia and China are both also \u2018sanctioned\u2019 by Washington for not \u2018behaving\u2019, and because Russia and China are natural allies of North Korea. \u2013 Why were they going along with Washington\u2019s blackmail? \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Was it out of fear that the madman could possibly press the red bottom, if provoked? \u2013 Voting with the madman is certainly no reason to believe that the Mad Man<\/em> will not press the nuclear bottom.<\/strong> \u2013 Then, what kind of diplomacy is it?<\/strong> \u2013 The fear of more sanctions directed at Russia and China?<\/p>\n

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\u2019s population and one third of the globe\u2019s economic output. Hence, they can function fully independently from the west. There are no fears of sanctions either.<\/p>\n

Then why?<\/p>\n

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\u2019s people, their friends and allies, suffocate to death. This would tell those nations who still do not dare contradicting the US of A \u2013 \u201cDon\u2019t be afraid, we are on your side.\u201d<\/p>\n

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,<\/p>\n

\u201c576,000 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.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In addition, the study found \u201csteeply rising malnutrition among the young, suggesting that more children will be at risk in the coming years.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Indeed, close to a million Iraqis have died as the result of a decade long US-imposed UN sanctions scheme.<\/p>\n

Will the world allow similar numbers \u2013 or higher \u2013 of people to die in North Korea<\/strong>, 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?<\/p>\n

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 30% of the population, about 3 million people. Does anyone wonder why North Korea has opted to defend herself \u2013 come what may?<\/p>\n

This is Pyonyang in 1953. Completely destroyed by the USA (and rebuilt by North Korea):<\/strong><\/p>\n

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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<\/strong>, 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?<\/p>\n

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North Korean kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

Why would North Korea, or any nation for that matter \u2013 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 \u2013 all of which have allegedly acquired B61 tactical nuclear weapons (Made in America) targeted at Russia, Iran and other countries in the Middle East allegedly for \u201cdefense purposes\u201d?<\/p>\n

Turkey has five times more nuclear weapons than North Korea at its Incirlik base, Belgium and the Netherlands have together four times m0re nuclear weapons than the DPRK.<\/p>\n

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Peter Koenig<\/em> 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 and writes regularly for <\/em>Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 21st<\/sup> Century (China<\/em>), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of <\/em>Implosion \u2013 An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed <\/a>\u2013 fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of <\/em>The World Order and Revolution! \u2013 Essays from the Resistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 Peter Koenig<\/a>, Global Research, 2017<\/em><\/p>\n

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