Why We Don't Need the UN

China and Russia, who have permanent seats on the UN's security council, have backed North Korea since its invasion of South Korea in 1950. Since then, North Korea has committed acts of war and terror against both South Korea and Japan including blowing up aircraft and kidnapping.


The inhumanity of the Kim dynasty merits its own grievous mention.

If these reports are correct, why did the world stand by and do nothing?:

According to a report by the Daily NK, a defector-staffed, Seoul-based online newspaper with a network of clandestine reporters inside North Korea, Camp 22 was shut down between March and June of this year, with surviving prisoners moved to other camps further from the Chinese border.  The report claims that the camp was closed after the warden escaped into China, and that the regime closed the camp for fear that its location near the border posed an excessive risk that the secrets of Camp 22 would be revealed by escapees. …

By the spring of this year, of an estimated 2010 population of 30,000 prisoners (a lower but plausible estimate compared to other NGO estimates), just 3,000 were left alive, which represents a death rate of 90%.  The report claims that at one point, the guards were burning hundreds of bodies a day in a crematorium like the one you can see in the imagery of Camp 25. The surviving prisoners were sent to Camp 16, along North Korea’s northeast coast, near its nuclear and missile testing sites. 

The very United Nations that kept North Korea separate and belligerent, free from any real consequence, still gives a platform to this murderous Stalinist state very much the same way it allows Iran to keep bellowing its hateful screeds:

Pak Kil-yon, Pyongyang's vice-foreign minster, put the blame for the tense state of inter-Korean relations firmly on South Korea's conservative government and claimed the citizens of the North feel "shame" and "political terror."

Monday's speech was the first time a representative of North Korea has addressed the General Assembly since Kim Jong-un assumed power after the death of his father in December last year.

"Since taking office, the current South Korean government has caused the worst situation in North-South relations by making all inter-Korean agreements null and void," Pak said, referring to pacts with previous South Korean administrations that sought reconciliation between the two ideological enemies and an expansion of economic co-operation. …

"Today, due to the continued US hostile policy towards the DPRK, the vicious cycle of confrontation and aggravation of tensions is an ongoing phenomenon on the Korean Peninsula, which has become the world's most dangerous hot spot and where a spark of fire could set off a thermonuclear war," Pak said.

Would that South Korea would man up and take the fight to them. The UN cannot be trusted to do so.

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