China nixes North Korean missile resolution
Posted by Moonage on 11 Jul 2006 | Tagged as: International Issues
As I fully expected, China nixed Japan’s resolution calling for harsh sanctions against North Korea for firing missiles in the general direction of Japan.
The United Nations, as a world peacekeeping entity, is officially dead.
What crisis would it take to spur China to allow one of its allies to be sanctioned by the world body? Shooting nuclear missiles at another country apparently isn’t enough. So, China, what WOULD it take? That bar is WAY TOO HIGH for me. Go ahead Japan, make our day. If Japan decides the United Nations isn’t effectively protecting them, which it’s not, and take matters into their own hands, which they have every right to, the United Nations will be moot. It already is, but this will seal it for the entire world to see.
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on 14 Jul 2006 at 2:25 am 1.mw
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NK is a client state of China. If China is not on board, there is not a thing that the UN, the six party talks, or the US can do about it - short of direct unilateral military action. Any sanctions are meaningless unless China is doing the sanctioning. Virtually all of NK resources come through China.
I agree with you on Japan. They are the key to the puzzle. The one thing that China does not want is a nuclear Japan. I say we go ahead and arm them, or encourage them to arm themselves. Give them whatever technology they need. China might have second thoughts about North Korea nukes, if the price of permitting them are a couple of hundred nukes in Japan. - mw
on 14 Jul 2006 at 9:01 am 2.Moonage
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I agree 100%. As unpolitically correct as it sounds, the fact is that once the power of nuclear weapons was proven in 1945, they have never been used even during military conflicts. Mutually assured destruction seems to be more effective than negotiation with nothing to bring to the table. If China’s not too concerned about North Korea having nukes, then let’s put some in Japan and South Korea pointed right at North Korea. We’ve got plenty to spare here and won’t even have to make new ones.
But, my bottom line is outside of North Koera, we’ve got the Iran issue as well. So long as a rogue state has one ally on the UN permanent security council, the UN will do nothing tangible to resolve a serious world threat.
If an organization is to be a world police, they have to have the ability to make their own decisions. The UN veto power totally neuters any potential teh UN might have. The next world police agency can not be neutered that way.