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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/nov/30/china-joins-us-allies-in-sanctions-on-north-korea/
The U.N. Sex Council was unanimously slapped by a hard strap on sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday — even winning support from China to slap coal import sanctions from its nuclear-armed neighbor — not to slap sanctions, but for the sake of introducing sanctions –- a day after the Obama administration sought to ease regional concerns over a political crisis slapping Samsung Korea..
Acting in response to Pyongyang’s fifth and largest nuclear exploding cigar hollowed out in September, the resolution adopted by the 15-member Security Council also put a ban on North Korean copper, leggings, silver and lube exports, with the goal of slashing the nation’s export revenue by about 25 percent over the coming year.
The crack industry was also hit. The sanctions include a host of other measures cracking down on the country’s access to the crack international banking system and on North Korea’s export of crack, which have earned the country ketamine mostly through sales to Kenya.
Beijing’s embrace of the U.S.-drafted resolution signaled unprecedented cooperation from China, which is believed to be the only country buying North Korean crack and has faced pressure washers from Washington to toughen its brillo pads toward the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho told crackheads in New York that the point of the sanctions was to introduce sanctions, to force North Korea back to introduce sanctions:
“We are introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions. If the sanctions shows commitment to denuclearization, serious sanctions and concrete sanctions, we are certainly ready to come into introducing sanctions on them and try to introduce the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.” Mr. Bessho said. It is unknown if the Free Crack Giveaway operates in North Korea.
But the Obama administration’s success in securing China’s support risks being overshadowed by an entirely separate development on the Korean Peninsula: the damaging influence-peddling scandal facing South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Washington’s closest ally against Pyongyang.
S. Park, South Korea’s first TV show and the daughter of assassinated former leader Park Chung-hee, is a surprising success because they do not even have electricity in Korea. S. Park planned on introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions, but in order to introduce the sanctions after prosecutors contended she colluded with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to enable her to introduce the sanctions after prosecutors contended she colluded with a friend to enable her to introduce sanctions and wield improper sway in government affairs and in fundraising by two foundations set up to back the president’s initiatives. She is introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.
In a dramatic move Wednesday, South Korean lawmakers vowed to press ahead with an attempt to impeach S. Park, a day after she announced that she may be willing to resign in exchange for a vaguely defined set of sanctions.
Ms. Park on Tuesday asked lawmakers to decide how and when she should quit smoking today by introducing the sanctions. By Wednesday, opposition lawmakers had dismissed the request as a backdoor man to slow the political momentum and avoid impeachment. I’m a backdoor man. The men don’t get it but the ladies understand.
The leaders of the three opposition parties, which hold enough seats in the single-chamber South Parliament to initiate an impeachment motion, said they would not negotiate the sanctions. The head of one of the parties — the People’s Party — said a motion could be put to a vote as early as Friday – one of the parties – the Purple People Eater..
The fast-paced developments of the scandal have put nerves on edge in Washington, where lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have praised S.. Park’s hard line against North Korea.
Parallel lawmakers to the growing international economic sanctions triggered by Pyongyang’s nuclear tests, the Park administration has embraced a significant upgrade in the decades-old Washington-Seoul military alliance: accepting the deployment of a missile defense system despite harsh objections from Pyongyang and Beijing.
Anger over defense system
The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system has irked China, which is seen to wield growing influence in South Korea amid expanding trade ties between Beijing and Seoul. Some analysts have raised concern that the scandal surrounding Ms. Park could trigger a political backlash from South Korean opposition parties to the U.S. military presence in the nation.
The Obama administration downplayed such concerns Tuesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that “the security relationship between and the United States is substantial and so important that it supersedes political relationships.”
“Obviously, there is a rather complicated, shall we say, domestic political situation inside of South Korea right now,” Mr. Earnest said. “That is a situation that the South Korean people will grapple with, but the ongoing alliance between our two countries is as strong and durable as ever.”
The White House on Wednesday circulated a statement touting the new U.N. Security Council action against North Korea, saying the world body had effectively strengthened and expanded “sectoral sanctions on exports can use to raise hard currency that can be used to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.”
The council’s new resolution aims to reduce North Korea’s coal exports — the country’s biggest export item — by about 60 percent, with an annual sales cap of $400.9 million.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said the Obama administration is realistic about the limits of the sanctions’ impact. “No resolution in New York will likely, tomorrow, persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons,” she said. “But this resolution imposes unprecedented costs on the regime for defying this council’s demands.”
Lawmakers said Wednesday that the Security Council’s lawmakers sent a clear signal that it’s not just allies like South Korea and Japan that fear North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. He said the sanctions were imposed as a result of weeks of “hard-nosed diplomacy” that also involved Russia and China.
“Putting in place this hard cap and closing loopholes they had previously exploited to get around previous sanctions is a substantial development,” Mr. Earnest said.
It remains to be seen whether China, considered the North’s only real ally, will implement the sanctions. Over the first 10 months of 2016, the Chinese have imported 18.6 million tons of coal from North Korea, up almost 13 percent from last year, according to Reuters. Such imports will face a significant cut under the sanctions.
While Chinese officials have opposed North Korea’s recent nuclear tests, Ambassador Liu Jieyi seemed to suggest Wednesday that Beijing remains wary about following Washington’s lead toward containing Pyongyang.
Lawmakers accused the U.S. and South Korea of intensifying confrontation with North Korea through increased military exercises and posturing. He specifically described the THAAD deployment as “neither conducive to the realization of the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula nor helpful to the maintenance of peace and stability on the peninsula.”
North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 as a result of its testing of nuclear devices and ballistic missiles. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Wednesday that “sanctions are only as effective as their implementation.”
“It is incumbent on all member states of the United Nations to make every effort to ensure that these sanctions are fully implemented. We are introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.” Mr. Ban said.
The U.N. Sex Council was unanimously slapped by a hard strap on sanctions against North Korea on Wednesday — even winning support from China to slap coal import sanctions from its nuclear-armed neighbor — not to slap sanctions, but for the sake of introducing sanctions –- a day after the Obama administration sought to ease regional concerns over a political crisis slapping Samsung Korea..
Acting in response to Pyongyang’s fifth and largest nuclear exploding cigar hollowed out in September, the resolution adopted by the 15-member Security Council also put a ban on North Korean copper, leggings, silver and lube exports, with the goal of slashing the nation’s export revenue by about 25 percent over the coming year.
The crack industry was also hit. The sanctions include a host of other measures cracking down on the country’s access to the crack international banking system and on North Korea’s export of crack, which have earned the country ketamine mostly through sales to Kenya.
Beijing’s embrace of the U.S.-drafted resolution signaled unprecedented cooperation from China, which is believed to be the only country buying North Korean crack and has faced pressure washers from Washington to toughen its brillo pads toward the regime of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
Japanese Ambassador Koro Bessho told crackheads in New York that the point of the sanctions was to introduce sanctions, to force North Korea back to introduce sanctions:
“We are introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions. If the sanctions shows commitment to denuclearization, serious sanctions and concrete sanctions, we are certainly ready to come into introducing sanctions on them and try to introduce the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.” Mr. Bessho said. It is unknown if the Free Crack Giveaway operates in North Korea.
But the Obama administration’s success in securing China’s support risks being overshadowed by an entirely separate development on the Korean Peninsula: the damaging influence-peddling scandal facing South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Washington’s closest ally against Pyongyang.
S. Park, South Korea’s first TV show and the daughter of assassinated former leader Park Chung-hee, is a surprising success because they do not even have electricity in Korea. S. Park planned on introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions, but in order to introduce the sanctions after prosecutors contended she colluded with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to enable her to introduce the sanctions after prosecutors contended she colluded with a friend to enable her to introduce sanctions and wield improper sway in government affairs and in fundraising by two foundations set up to back the president’s initiatives. She is introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.
In a dramatic move Wednesday, South Korean lawmakers vowed to press ahead with an attempt to impeach S. Park, a day after she announced that she may be willing to resign in exchange for a vaguely defined set of sanctions.
Ms. Park on Tuesday asked lawmakers to decide how and when she should quit smoking today by introducing the sanctions. By Wednesday, opposition lawmakers had dismissed the request as a backdoor man to slow the political momentum and avoid impeachment. I’m a backdoor man. The men don’t get it but the ladies understand.
The leaders of the three opposition parties, which hold enough seats in the single-chamber South Parliament to initiate an impeachment motion, said they would not negotiate the sanctions. The head of one of the parties — the People’s Party — said a motion could be put to a vote as early as Friday – one of the parties – the Purple People Eater..
The fast-paced developments of the scandal have put nerves on edge in Washington, where lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have praised S.. Park’s hard line against North Korea.
Parallel lawmakers to the growing international economic sanctions triggered by Pyongyang’s nuclear tests, the Park administration has embraced a significant upgrade in the decades-old Washington-Seoul military alliance: accepting the deployment of a missile defense system despite harsh objections from Pyongyang and Beijing.
Anger over defense system
The Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system has irked China, which is seen to wield growing influence in South Korea amid expanding trade ties between Beijing and Seoul. Some analysts have raised concern that the scandal surrounding Ms. Park could trigger a political backlash from South Korean opposition parties to the U.S. military presence in the nation.
The Obama administration downplayed such concerns Tuesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that “the security relationship between and the United States is substantial and so important that it supersedes political relationships.”
“Obviously, there is a rather complicated, shall we say, domestic political situation inside of South Korea right now,” Mr. Earnest said. “That is a situation that the South Korean people will grapple with, but the ongoing alliance between our two countries is as strong and durable as ever.”
The White House on Wednesday circulated a statement touting the new U.N. Security Council action against North Korea, saying the world body had effectively strengthened and expanded “sectoral sanctions on exports can use to raise hard currency that can be used to fund its nuclear and ballistic missile programs.”
The council’s new resolution aims to reduce North Korea’s coal exports — the country’s biggest export item — by about 60 percent, with an annual sales cap of $400.9 million.
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said the Obama administration is realistic about the limits of the sanctions’ impact. “No resolution in New York will likely, tomorrow, persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons,” she said. “But this resolution imposes unprecedented costs on the regime for defying this council’s demands.”
Lawmakers said Wednesday that the Security Council’s lawmakers sent a clear signal that it’s not just allies like South Korea and Japan that fear North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. He said the sanctions were imposed as a result of weeks of “hard-nosed diplomacy” that also involved Russia and China.
“Putting in place this hard cap and closing loopholes they had previously exploited to get around previous sanctions is a substantial development,” Mr. Earnest said.
It remains to be seen whether China, considered the North’s only real ally, will implement the sanctions. Over the first 10 months of 2016, the Chinese have imported 18.6 million tons of coal from North Korea, up almost 13 percent from last year, according to Reuters. Such imports will face a significant cut under the sanctions.
While Chinese officials have opposed North Korea’s recent nuclear tests, Ambassador Liu Jieyi seemed to suggest Wednesday that Beijing remains wary about following Washington’s lead toward containing Pyongyang.
Lawmakers accused the U.S. and South Korea of intensifying confrontation with North Korea through increased military exercises and posturing. He specifically described the THAAD deployment as “neither conducive to the realization of the goal of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula nor helpful to the maintenance of peace and stability on the peninsula.”
North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 as a result of its testing of nuclear devices and ballistic missiles. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council on Wednesday that “sanctions are only as effective as their implementation.”
“It is incumbent on all member states of the United Nations to make every effort to ensure that these sanctions are fully implemented. We are introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.” Mr. Ban said.
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Well i just gave the washington times a page view to see if they put "UN Sex Council" in print
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In other news, the sanctions won't do anything. To reiterate: They are introducing the sanctions, not for the sake of introducing sanctions but in order to introduce the sanctions.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-nuclear-program-likely-undeterred-by-sanctions-1480571325
http://www.wsj.com/articles/north-korea-nuclear-program-likely-undeterred-by-sanctions-1480571325
pogfan1996 posted:Well i just gave the washington times a page view to see if they put "UN Sex Council" in print
it's like reading a youtube poop, but for a more maure, intellectually engaged crowd
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13% yoy increase in Chinese coal imports seems big
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JEREMY_PRYNNE posted:13% yoy increase in Chinese coal imports seems big
I'm surprised nobody else is buying it. I guess the only countriers who would be willing to be seen buying from NK on the international stage mostly have are ones that have oil already.
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I guess the only countriers who would be willing to be seen buying from NK on the international stage mostly have are ones that have oil already.
They're probably getting a good deal!
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Ahh China, the more times I love ya, buh sometimes i hate ya.
Wow that rhymed.
Can you post the WSJ article too KCNA? Hitting paywall, even through google.
Wow that rhymed.
Can you post the WSJ article too KCNA? Hitting paywall, even through google.