North Korea Assumes Presidency of U.N. Arms Control Conference . . . Wait, Which Conference?…
Mind-numbing insanity.
(Daily Caller) — In the latest ‘you’ve got to be kidding’ news from the United Nations, North Korea assumed the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament Tuesday.
“Bare months after the U.N. finally suspended Libya’s Col. Muammar Qaddafi from its Human Rights Council, North Korea wins the propaganda coup of heading the world’s disarmament agency,” the executive director of UN Watch Hillel Neuer said in a statement protesting the move. “It’s asking the fox to guard the chickens, and damages the U.N.’s credibility.”
According to the U.N. summary of the meeting, North Korea’s So Se Pyong addressed the 65-member arms control forum, saying that “he was very much committed to the Conference and during his presidency he welcomed any sort of constructive proposals that strengthened the work and credibility of the body.”
Neuer said that though North Korea’s new role as head of the conference, which reports to the U.N. General Assembly, would likely be justified by the U.N. by saying it was the result of a an “automatic rotation,” such an excuse was not sufficient.
“While the U.N. will likely defend North Korea’s appointment as simply an automatic rotation,” he said, “no system should tolerate such a fundamental conflict of interests. It’s common sense that a disarmament body should not be headed by the world’s arch-villain on illegal weapons and nuclear proliferation, notorious for exporting missiles and nuclear know-how to fellow rogue regimes around the globe.”
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, June 29, 2011, at 2:57 pm | 
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I think this could be reason 100,789,294,584 to cut all United States funding to the U.N.
This is sick!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?
“damages the UN’s credibility”?? They’d have to have some first.
ok that’s something really,REALLY sick. time to kick the U.N. off of american soil. they can put up their HQ in one of their beloved muslim shitholes or NK.
This kind supreme stupidity is beyond all comprehension! It’s not even funny.
Hard, perilous times.
I would like to know WHO voted for this???? WHO???? I simply cannot, CANNOT wrap my numbed mind around this.
Well, in that case then, Saudi Arabia would be in charge of Women’s Rights, Syria for Voter’s Rights, and Iran… Gay Rights.
That’s OK, as soon as we get a Republican-controlled Congress, all our funding of the anti-American, utterly insane UN will stop…
Um…
Oh, forget it.
Libya in charge of human rights, now North Korea in charge of nuclear disarmament. The typical UN-loving liberal would claim you were lying if you stated these facts.
When I read the headline, I thought I needed new glasses or maybe I got misdirected to The Onion.
The Inmates are Finally Running The Asylum.
“…damages the U.N.’s credibility” is the understatement of the year–or at least of the day, given the idiocy spewing out from every liberal/progressive rock these days.
And to think that I just watched “One flew over the cuckoos nest”. How ironic. How sad. How F%$#@+&* bat$%!& crazy is the U.N? Evict them now. Off to Switzerland.
Forget ‘you just can’t make this s#%t up’ – we’re down to Ricky D’s “One flew over the cuckoos nest” comparison, and rightly so. Perfect example.
By next week I’ll be rooting for “Stop The World I Want To Get Off.”
@Rufus,
Don’t be ridiculous. There are no gays in Iran!
True comedy in action. Who the heck came up with this brilliant idea?
The UN?!?! Oh, I get it now.
I really don’t understand why the US is still in the UN? Why the Hell?
Tantamount to placing Ted Bundy at the head of a Task Force on Serial Killers.
So North Korea is now in charge of making sure that every country except theirs is Disarmed (also known exceptions are Iraq, Russia, China, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and every other NON-Ally (depending on who’s President) of the United States).
Jeff, The U.S. is still in the U.N. because the Building they Meet at is in New York City. No other country in the world wants these Evil Bastards meeting on their Soil. Especially all the other Countries in the U.N. The other U.N. Representatives (not including the U.N. unless you count Obama who is currently the U.N. Security Advisor) also claim that the United States treats all of humanity with the Least Dignity and Respect than any other Country in the World Today, Brittan (i.e British Isles) is the 2nd worst.
Warped..just on the heels of (more recent news) of starvation and shutting down Universities?