Kim Gets the Dough

Cross posted from DeMediacratic Nation:

North Korea has finally received the $25 million frozen in Macao’s Banco Delta Asia that it “demanded” prior to its following through on the February 13^th agreement to dismantle the Yongbyon nuclear plant.

There should still remain concerns as it is unlikely North Korea will discontinue its illegal activities, such as counterfeiting money and cigarettes, drug traffic and illegal weapons sales, as it has proved so lucrative. It will likely (hopefully) continue to have banking difficulties based upon the U.S. Treasury working group Illicit Activities Initiative, which tracked the North’s illegal activities. It was this investigation that led to the U.S. Treasury finding Macao’s Banco Delta Asia a “primary money laundering concern.” No international banking member wants to be labeled as such, so Kim will have a tough time of things.

The U.N.s IAEA will now meet with North Korea to discuss “a timetable for shutting down the reactor and technical details of monitoring and verification.” The IAEA and the North “have bickered over how much access the agency should have to nuclear facilities and data in the isolated country” ever since the revelation of the North’s illicit nuclear weapons program. So, they will negotiate to discuss, talk, and agree about discussing, talking and agreeing so to speak…make sense? That’s U.N. diplo-speak at its finest.

Further “North Korea said it would use the released money ‘“for improving the standard of people’s living and humanitarian purposes,”’ as the United States demanded.” Uhn huhn…ok.

Absurd: Iran-Syria Head UN Disarmament

Originally posted at Maggie's Notebook

This from Anne Bayefsky of Eye on the UN and originally posted at National Review Online

"It took the U.N. a mere five days to rehabilitate Iran after the British kidnap victims made it home alive. Just the night before on April 8, Faye Turney, the only female victim, revealed her Iranian abductors stripped her to her underwear, caged her in a tiny, freezing cell, and subjected her to mental torture such as leading her to believe that her death was imminent."

Bayefsky reports that as Faye Turney is sitting, near-naked and caged, the U.N. Human Rights Council was announcing this:

"I would like to make the following statement adopted by the Council. One,…the Human Rights Council has in closed meetings examined the human rights situation in…the Islamic Republic of Iran…Two, the Human Rights Council has decided to discontinue the consideration of the human rights situation in the Islamic Republic of Iran…Three,…members of the Human Rights Council should make no reference in the public debate to the confidential decisions and material concerning [the Islamic Republic of Iran]…"

I had to read the above quote several times. Not only is the U.N. Civil Rights Council discontinuing the examination of human rights in Iran, it is forbidding any "reference" to the state of Iranian human rights "in the public debate." In otherwords, in the simplest terms: Don't you dare tell what you know. Absurd: Iran's re-election to the post of Vice Chairman of the U.N. Disarmament Commission.

Read Anne Bayefsky's piece in its entirety.

From William R. Hawkins, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies at the U.S. Business and Industrial Council in Washington, D.C., for FrontPageMag.com FrontPageMag.com - Iran Calls the UN's Bluff:

Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, said, “Just this past weekend, the U.S. led the Security Council in a 15-0 vote to condemn and sanction Iran for the second time in three months."

Speaking of the British hostages, Hawkins says:

"...the incident has not been put into the larger context of Tehran desire to expose the weakness of UN Security Council Resolution 1747, and the supposed coalition behind it."

Hawkins goes through the attributes of Resolution 1747, or lack of them. The absurdity of the absurd:

"It is the importation of arms that needs to be embargoed to weaken Tehran’s regional military capability. But this is not prohibited, only discouraged by the UN."

Now to Syria and another quote from Anne Bayefsky:

"Following the election on Monday of Iran as vice chairman, the U.N. Disarmament Commission elected Syria as its rapporteur."

Definition of 'rapporteur: a person responsible for compiling reports and presenting them, as to a governing body.

The time to get very, very serious about our connection to the U.N., our funding of the U.N., exposing the U.N., and protecting the state of freedom in the free world, has passed. Nevertheless, each day this country's leaders can only pick-up and go forward - begin anew, resolve anew, and outwit the likes of Iran and the threat of Islam on the United States. We know this "World Body - the U.N.," well, and there can be no expectations for the UN to be a "force for good" for the world. What's next? France and Germany...free countries. For how long? Each will desperately need the United States - likely sooner than later; Israel, facing a pressing nuclear threat. What's next?

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