U.N. Council imposes harsh sanctions on North Korea

[leftchick]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-10-14T180546Z_01_N14268552_RTRUKOC_0_UK-KOREA-NORTH-UN.xml

The U.S.-drafted resolution allows nations to stop cargo going to and from North Korea to check for weapons of mass destruction or related supplies.

It requires all countries to prevent the sale or transfer of materials related to Pyongyang's unconventional weapons programs. And the resolution demands nations freeze funds overseas of people or businesses connected with North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

"Today we are sending a strong and clear message to North Korea and other would-be proliferators that there will be serious repercussions in continuing to pursue weapons of mass destruction," U.S. Ambassador John Bolton told the council.

In a concession to China, the resolution specifically excludes the use of force, but allows economic sanctions and a restriction on naval and air transport.

But the document still puts an international imprimatur on the U.S.-led Proliferation Security Initiative. This was launched in May 2003 and encourages countries to interdict weapons from North Korea, Iran and other states of concern.

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Oh jolly more acts of war.

We are the planet's ornery putz's. How soon before one of these naval interdictions ends up in a shooting match?

[bemildred]

2. Harsh my ass. It has no teeth. nt

[fooj]

5. Nothing is MANDATORY, right?

That's the way I heard it this am.

[leftchick]

8. thanks for cutting through the BS!

bolton is a dolt! And an embarrassing one at that.

[bemildred]

9. This is Dolton negotiating with China:

That's Dolton on the ground.

[leftchick]

10. lol! right on target!

and that is exactly the way the other UN ambassadors see that stupid punk!

:rofl:

[ruiner4u]

11. C'mon now.... The dog is alot smarter then bolton

[oblivious]

14. Haha! The US eliminated a complete ban on the sale of conventional weapons

...The Americans also eliminated a complete ban on the sale of conventional weapons; instead, the resolution limits the embargo to major hardware such as tanks, warships, combat aircraft and missiles.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061014/D8KOI9DO0.html

Well you don't want it to be too punishing after all.

What else. Oh, they're going to stop luxury goods going to N Korea in the hopes that this will cause the NK elite to break down and beg for surrender.

...It also aims to pinch leader Kim Jong Il’s elite by banning sales of luxury goods to the North.
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/10/14/s-korea-japan-welcome-un-resolution-punishing-north-korea-2/

:rofl:

[IndianaGreen]

3. Much ado about nothing... but it does have one dangerous provision

stopping shipping on the high seas can be considered an act of war, and most Americans don't realize that North Korea is holding all the cards. NK can do more harm to us and to our allies than we can ever do to it. Killing a million North Korean civilians will result in a million less mouths to feed to the Kim regime. Killing an equal number of South Koreans and Japanese by NK missiles and artillery shells would be a catastrophe to the civilized world.

We have institutions for the criminal insane that have people just like Kim Jong Il and George W. Bush as patients. It is too bad that we cannot commit Kim and Bush to such institutions before they get us all killed.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. I think N. Korea has already said they consider this an act of war

and you are correct, a million dead to them is just a million less mouths to feed, so what is to keep them from lobbing a nuke on our troops along the DMZ?

[greccogirl]

12. No, now they said any MORE

sanctions will be an 'act of war'. In other words, they won't do nuthin'.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

13. Well, we'll see. I hope you are right. n/t

[Toots]

15. What an interesting question

What indeed is stopping them from launching an attack? What is stopping Iran from launching an attack? Possibly because they don't want to attack anyone. Bush* and his Cabal are the only ones saying that North Korea and Iran are so dangerous because they are on the verge of attacking the US and destroying our way of life. Neither of those countries is saying any such thing. They are or probably are seeking nuclear weapons as a protection from attack and not as a means to attack. We will not attack North Korea now because we know they have the bomb and the window is closing for the Cabal to attack Iran. Neither of those countries has any intention what-so-ever of attacking anyone. They just want to be treated with respect and we all know the GOP is incapable of doing that. In fact the GOP does not know the meaning of that word Respect. They have none for any person place or thing..

[MGD]

6. They have already survived our diplomatic seige for decades

This will be like water on a duck's back to them. It is something of a political victory for our own dear leader however as it looks as if he actually accomplished something. I will be curious to see what happens when we start boarding NK vessels however. That should make for some interesting news and debate.

[misternormal]

7. Lets not forget The USS Pueblo...

The Pueblo is the Navy ship that North Korea seized in 1968 in waters off the country's east coast, setting off an international crisis. One American sailor was killed and 82 others were imprisoned for nearly a year and tortured into writing confessions. To signal that the confessions were forced, the sailors listed accomplices like the television character Maxwell Smart.

When forced to pose for a photo, some crew members extended their middle fingers to the camera, explaining to the North Korean photographer that this was a Hawaiian good luck sign. After the photo was published and the North Korean guards realized they'd been had, the sailors suffered a week of particularly brutal torture.

As the first Navy vessel to surrender in peacetime since 1807, the Pueblo was a humiliation for America. And it has become a propaganda trophy for North Korea, with ordinary Koreans paraded through in organized tours to fire up nationalist support for the Dear Leader, Kim Jong Il.

snip...

The defensive cover that was to have been provided by the Navy and the Air Force in response to calls from the Pueblo never came. The Navy and the Johnson administration missed all the indications and warnings that such a fate could befall the Pueblo, even after recognizing that the Pyongyang regime had violated the demilitarized zone more than fifty times, ambushed U.S and allied ground forces, attempted to assassinate the president of the Republic of Korea (with a secondary target to be the American embassy), and in the preceding nine months seized twenty South Korean fishing vessels for "entering North Korean territorial waters."

http://www.mishalov.com/pueblo.html

[Eugene]

16. AP: U.S. Presses China to Influence N. Korea

U.S. Presses China to Influence N. Korea

By FOSTER KLUG

WASHINGTON Oct 15, 2006 (AP)— China has a "heavy responsibility" in trying
to influence North Korea and achieve a nuclear-free Korean peninsula, the
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said Sunday.

-snip-

The U.S.-sponsored resolution approved Saturday demands that North Korea
abandon its nuclear weapons program and orders all countries to prevent
the North from importing or exporting any material for weapons of mass
destruction or ballistic missiles.

But China said it would not go along with a a call to inspect cargo leaving
and arriving in North Korea to prevent any illegal trafficking in unconventional
weapons or ballistic missiles.

"China signed on to this resolution. It voted for this resolution. … And so
I'm quite certain that China is going to live up to its responsibilities,"
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2569410