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UN Names N. Korea Chair of Disarmament Committee
LibRT writes "The irony-challenged folks at the UN have named North Korea chair of the Conference on Disarmament, which is heavily focused on the prevention of a nuclear arms race and nuclear disarmament. The Canadian government has boycotted the convention, calling it an 'absurd' turn of events: 'North Korea is simply not a credible chair of a disarmament body. The fact that it gets a turn chairing a United Nations committee focused on disarmament is unacceptable, given the North Korean regime's efforts in the exact opposite direction.'"
Note that Libya was once president of the UN's Human Rights Commission, and only recently removed from its successor in interest, the Human Rights Council.
In other news, UN Secretary General as quoted today as saying "The reprsentative from Burundi owes me 10 euros", followed by laughter broken up with occasional phrases like "suck it", "who's your daddy", and various other remarks.
Quo usque tandem abutere, Nimbus, patientia nostra?
I wouldn't loose too much sleep if N. Korea was no longer in the UN.
I wouldn't tight too much sleep either.
The United States deserves the chairmanship, on a semi-permanent basis.
In terms of volume, the United States is doing more to disarm itself than any other country. We presently have disarmament operations underway over Afghanistan, Libya, and to a lesser extent Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
And yet, compared to W/republicans, I would have to say that Obama has been peaceful. Heck, we are on the verge of being out of Iraq and even Afghanistan is winding down. So, yeah.