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.

Comments

Why..?

[Caerdwyn]

Can someone please explain why the U.S. should host, subsidize, or be a member of the U.N. given its current condition and activities? In all seriousness, I can think of no reason whatsoever.

Re:Alternate Headline: North Korea is in the UN

[Boronx]

NK went ahead with bomb productions when George Bush stopped dealing with them, cause they's the bad guys and he's the good guys, I guess. They immediately broke the UN seals on their Plutonium stockpile and started refining them. When they'd tried something similar to Clinton, he threatened to bomb them if they didn't back down, and gave them lots of goodies when they did. Bush, typically, did nothing.

If NKs stance towards disarmament should disqualify them, then shouldn't the US be disqualified if the Republicans gain power again? The Bush administration tried to set a policy of increased nuke capability and even floated a plan for decreased threshold for using them.