It’s Official: North Korea Rules the World!

“If the Security Council, they take any kind of steps whatever, we’ll consider this is (an) encroachment on our sovereignty and the next option will be ours,” Deputy Ambassador Pak Tok Hun told reporters. “Necessary and strong steps will … follow that.” [Reuters, Louis Charbonneau]

Thy will be done!

Efforts to reach an agreement on sanctions at the Security Council look firmly deadlocked, with Russia and China insisting that North Korea did not violate the resolutions that their ambassadors obviously haven’t read.

The denial of this permission slip by two malevolent, unrepresentative regimes should cause further reconsideration of the U.N.’s role in our national security policy (how about “none whatsoever?”). I’d argue that the Security Council has become an impediment to the prevention of war, proliferation, and genocide. We should seek to create an alternative international framework that excludes China, Russia, and other unrepresentative governments, with an aim to eventually withdraw and let the failed U.N. experiment expire from a lack of funds.