North Korea, Under Sanctions for Developing Nuclear Weapons, Takes Helm of UN Disarmament Body – Opinion

As if we needed even more proof that the United Nations is a hypocritical cartoon, pariah-state North Korea, under U.N. sanctions for feverishly pursuing a ballistic nuclear weapons program, has taken over the rotating presidency of the U.N.’s Conference on Disarmament. Is it possible to spell hypocrisy?

A brief explanation about how this irony came to be is needed before we can get to the irony.

According to the Washington PostOn Friday, each member state will be allowed to vote for the president of the conference. The rotation has been criticized by the West, for good reasons, in the past. This was evident when Syria took the presidency many years ago.

While the presidency is largely symbolic and administrative, the notion of North Korea and its nutjob dictator, Kim Jung Un at the helm of a nuclear disarmament conference illustrates the absolute hypocrisy of the “august” body, much like when Saudi Arabia was elected to the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women — a country The timeWomen were forbidden from driving their own vehicles in Saudi Arabia. Saudi women stillA male guardian must be present before a man can leave the country to work, travel or marry.

Han Tae Song, North Korea’s ambassador, opened the conference session by urging member countries to work toward “peace and security” and expressed willingness to work with all member states, adding that criticism from Western countries was “nothing new,” and simply “copy-and-paste” of past (legitimate) criticisms. Please.

Han also dragged out the old “North Korea has a right to defend itself” schtick, because NoKo is still technically at war with the U.S., with only a cease-fire — vs. a treaty — signed to halt the 1950-53 Korean War. Meh. This is a typical, paranoid comment from a dictatorship of hermits.

The larger issue here is the United Nations, itself — which is anything but.

The U.N’s treatment of Israel over the years has been nothing short of appalling — and hypocritical as hell. Hamas and Hezbollah have launched missile attacks into Israeli civilian neighbourhoods for over a decade without the U.N. sanctioning them. But the U.N. condemns Israel quickly when it defends itself against terrorist attacks. The State of Israel was condemned by 45 United Nations Human Rights Council resolutions (UNHRC) as of 2013. However, the UNHRC has failed repeatedly to condemn Hamas and Hezbollah.

The United States hasn’t always fared much better in the U.N. either.

As my colleague Jeff Charles reported in November 2020, the U.N. condemned America for “police brutality” and “racism.” It’s a fair statement that the Democrat Party has far less concern about how the U.S. is treated in the U.N. than do the Republicans — at times, blatantly using the hypocritical body against this country. And as RedState’s Andrew Malcolm reported in July of 2021, Joe Biden “shockingly” invited the United Nations to send a team of its “experts” to investigate racism within the United States.

There are many more. As a wee lad, I remember traveling with my parents on vacation and seeing those old signs along the interstate — usually on a stretch of farmland or whatever: “Get the U.N. out of the U.S. and the U.S. out of the U.N.”

It didn’t seem like such a bad idea, at the time. Perhaps it’s an even better idea, now.

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