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U.S. Envoy to UN Warns N.Korea of Tough Response
The top U.S. envoy to the UN visited Seoul on Sunday and warned North Korea that her government willing to use every means to pressure the North to give up its pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. Samantha Power sounded the warning in a press conference a day after arriving here on a four-day visit.
| Samantha Power is an intellectual and moral lightweight who believes that the U.S. should fight only when it has nothing at stake. She's been a key part of the failed foreign policies (all of them) of the Obama administration. The Russians, Chinese and Iranians laugh at her. I suspect some of our allies also laugh at her. The Norks certainly won't regard her with any gravity whatsoever. |
"While the Security Council resolutions are one tool in our toolbox and a very important instrument of pressure, we are committed to using all the tools in our tool kit to address this serious threat, including the diplomatic pressure that we are mobilizing around the world to convince other nations to isolate the regime," Power said.
Power oversees negotiations over sanctions against North Korea at the UN. Her visit comes as the North prepares for what appears to be either another nuclear test or missile launch as it marks the anniversary of its Workers Party on Monday.
Power said North Korea's nuclear problem is also a human rights problem. Arriving at Incheon International Airport on Saturday, she said the North Korean regime is an "abomination" and guilty of the "worst crime."
| About which we've done virtually nothing. We're not pressing the sanctions with the vigor required. We're not making it painful for China to use the Norks as their cats paw. We're not trying to go around Fat Boy to help the North Korean people. Our response has been vapid, and has been so since at least the Clinton administration. |
In the press conference she accused Pyongyang of investing all its resources into producing illegal weapons even though one in four North Korean children suffers from malnutrition.
The comments reflect Washington's two-track strategy of accusing Pyongyang of both human rights abuses and illegal weapons development.
Posted by: Steve White 2016-10-10 |
