UN Security Council Refuses To Hold North Korea Responsible For The Cheonan Sinking

From ROK Drop:

By GI Korea on July 9th, 2010 at 7:22 pm


UN Security Council Refuses To Condemn North Korean Murder of ROK Sailors

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Just further evidence of how useless the UN Security Council is:







The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned a deadly attack on a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors and pointed a finger toward North Korea but didn’t directly blame the reclusive communist nation.



North Korea’s U.N. Ambassador Sin Son Ho called it “our great diplomatic victory,” stressing again that his country had nothing to do with the sinking of the 1,200-ton Cheonan on March 26. U.S. State Department spokesman Mark Toner said he wouldn’t react “to overblown rhetoric.”



North Korea previously warned that its military forces would respond if the council questioned or condemned the country over the sinking, and ambassador Sin compared the situation on the Korean peninsula to a “trigger” that may explode “at any moment.” At the same time, he said North Korea will make “efforts” to continue the denuclearization process through six-party talks, which Pyongyang abandoned in December 2008, and to replace the Armistice Agreement that ended the 1950-53 Korean War with a new peace treaty.



The statement about the ship sinking, approved by all 15 council members, expressed “deep concern” over the findings of a South Korean-led international investigation that concluded that a North Korean torpedo fired by a North Korean submarine sank the Cheonan.



The statement, read by the council president, condemns the attack and calls for “appropriate and peaceful measures to be taken against those responsible.”



But it doesn’t identify who is responsible and notes North Korea’s response “that it had nothing to do with the incident.” [Stars & Stripes]



This is of course a huge victory for North Korea and the Chinese, which One Free Korea provides the best summary of:



The Chinese must be very pleased with themselves. They’ve gotten everything they wanted, and the mildly unpleasant words from President Obama and the State Department will soon be gone and forgotten. Kim Jong Il and Kim Jong Eun must be the most pleased of all. They’ll be able to portray this as the military and diplomatic victory they need to help propel Jung Eun into September’s meeting of the Grand People’s assembly as a victor over North Korea’s enemies. All has gone as well as they could possibly have hoped. They’ve escaped any significant consequence for this attack, drawn China closer to North Korea and inflamed its differences with America and South Korea, and reaffirmed the gullible stupidity — though it calls itself skepticism! — of the herds of bleating imbeciles who make up somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the South Korean population. [One Free Korea]