Security Council Set to Tighten Sanctions on North Korea
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/world/asia/11korea.html
June 11, 2009
Security Council Set to Tighten Sanctions on North Korea
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR [UN] [Security Council] [Permanent Five: Britian, China (PRC), France, Russia, and the US] [each has veto power] [each has equally weighted vote in 15-member council] [DPRK] [North Korea] [its most recent, most egregious, bizaare behavior] [detonations, missiles, and kidnappings—oh my] [now threats slug-it-out war of the worlds] [and succession looms] [use psci350, 390-5] [**]
UNITED NATIONS — The five permanent members of the Security Council have approved a draft resolution that would significantly expand export limits and financial restrictions on North Korea, diplomats said Wednesday, and it leaves open the possibility of widening inspections of North Korean cargo vessels. [apparently, to be
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/world/asia/11korea.html
June 11, 2009
Security Council Set to Tighten Sanctions on North Korea
By NEIL MacFARQUHAR [UN] [Security Council] [Permanent Five: Britian, China (PRC), France, Russia, and the US] [each has veto power] [each has equally weighted vote in 15-member council] [DPRK] [North Korea] [its most recent, most egregious, bizaare behavior] [detonations, missiles, and kidnappings—oh my] [now threats slug-it-out war of the worlds] [and succession looms] [use psci350, 390-5] [**]
UNITED NATIONS — The five permanent members of the Security Council have approved a draft resolution that would significantly expand export limits and financial restrictions on North Korea, diplomats said Wednesday, and it leaves open the possibility of widening inspections of North Korean cargo vessels. [apparently, to be done—if at all—via Security Council and not the more problematic Proliferation Security Initiative] [understandable] [DPRK has already erupted over it mutiple times] [diplomatically speakin, DPRK suffers serious premature eruption] [**]
The draft resolution, which will be presented to the full council on Wednesday morning, would expand the powers of member states to stop and search North Korean vessels. It also seeks to cut off their arms exports and expands financial measures against the North Korean government. North Korea has said that any attempt to stop its vessels would be considered an act of war. [***]
The permanent members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France — negotiated the wording, along with South Korea and Japan. [to be clear, niehter Japan nor ROK are permanent members—I’d have to check to see if they are evey current members in 2-year rotations] [**] Once presented to the full Council, the resolution could be voted on as early as Friday. [yikes] [I have no problem with the postion as such] [and US national-security interests > others] [but it’s a little worrisome how severly Ms. Ling and Lee might be punished given DPRK’s level of embarrassment] [**]
The draft resolution has taken more than two weeks to negotiate, largely because China and Russia, although supporting a tough message to North Korea, did not want to make it so harsh as to provoke or destabilize the North’s government. [**] [they rarely do] [they nearly always slow walk such resolutions] [conversely, the US nearly always rushes them through] [each side compensates for others and sort of strange process follows][*]
One Western diplomat called it a “significant” expansion of the measures that were first proposed but never enacted against North Korea after the North tested a nuclear device in 2006. At the time, the Council backed off putting the sanctions into effect because North Korea agreed to take part in the six-nation talks on dismantling its nuclear program.
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