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Trump will urge UN to impose North Korean naval blockade and oil embargo
The Guardian ^ | 09-09-2017 | Julian Borger

Posted on 09/09/2017 1:39:32 PM PDT by NRx

The US will embark on an aggressive effort to tighten North Korea’s isolation on Monday with a call for an oil embargo and a partial naval blockade.

A draft United Nations resolution seen by the Observer would also block textile exports and the hiring of North Korean labour by foreign countries. The American delegation has called for the UN security council to debate the draft, in an attempt to force decisive action following last Sunday’s massive nuclear test of a bomb, Pyongyang’s sixth.

The most striking language in the resolution authorises naval vessels of any UN member state to inspect North Korean ships suspected of carrying banned cargo and to use “all necessary measures to carry out such inspections”. The implications of such a resolution would be far-reaching. Any attempt to board or divert a North Korean vessel could trigger an exchange of fire.

As well as banning any exports of “crude oil, condensates, refined petroleum products, and natural gas liquids” to North Korea, the draft resolution calls for a prohibition on the import of textiles and an end to the hiring of North Korean nationals, on the grounds that the regime uses the foreign currency earned “to support its prohibited nuclear and ballistic missile programmes”.

Both Russia and China employ cheap North Korean labour. In Russia they work in logging camps and construction sites, helping build a new football stadium in St Petersburg that will be used in the World Cup next year.

The US draft measure would also freeze the assets of Kim Jong-un and the top leadership in Pyongyang.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blockade; korea; nknukes; nkorea; nksanctions; third100days; trump; trumpasia; trumpnk; trumpun; unitednations; usnavy
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To: grumpygresh

when was war declared ?

2 wrongs do not make a right

lawlessness breeds lawlessness


61 posted on 09/10/2017 9:18:28 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: JBW1949

I don’t want Congress to DO much of anything. The problems we have all stem from a gov’t that is 10 times bigger than it needs to be.


62 posted on 09/10/2017 9:19:43 AM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: Reily

That is my guess, too. Something has to stop lil’ fatman, and DJT can go back and say he tried everything before putting the hammer down.


63 posted on 09/10/2017 9:32:19 AM PDT by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: vooch

“...Repubs should do everything possible to return power to congress as per our founders vision...”

“...I don’t want Congress to DO much of anything...”

____________________________________________________

Kinda contradictory, don’t you think????


64 posted on 09/10/2017 10:02:05 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

If they don’t do it this time, it’ll be an even bigger surprise. This is tantamount to declaring war, or daring the other kid to throw the first punch, anyway.


65 posted on 09/10/2017 1:22:55 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: JBW1949

not contradictory at all


66 posted on 09/10/2017 3:12:03 PM PDT by vooch (America First Drain the Swamp)
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To: Eleutheria5

Trump knows that reality. This is nothing more than his last ditch “diplomatic” effort before going to war against the Norks.

The UN will, of course, do what they always do, which is to defend and uphold communist regimes and dictatorships, by any means, even while pretending otherwise. You must remember that the United Nations was - and still is - an invention of the Marxists.

The UN has played games about NK for 60+ years - and now time is up. Nuclear conflict is now plainly visible on the not-to-distant horizon - even if nobody here wants to admit it be so.


67 posted on 09/11/2017 8:08:33 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: JBW1949; vooch

He’s full of contradictions - and other stuff ... Which is why you should not waste bandwidth debating him. It’s a futile exercise.


68 posted on 09/11/2017 8:13:07 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: JME_FAN

Thanks...I have learned that...:^)


69 posted on 09/11/2017 8:19:05 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

>>NO ONE wants Kim to have nukes.

Yeah, but the distraction is sure convenient...

http://tapnewswire.com/2017/09/china-moves-on-new-world-order-will-buy-oil-with-gold-backed-currency-bypassing-us-petrodollar/


70 posted on 09/11/2017 8:31:14 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: JME_FAN
>>You must remember that the United Nations was - and still is - an invention of the Marxists.

“The name “United Nations”, coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt was first used in the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.”
http://www.un.org/en/sections/history/history-united-nations/

No WWII - No U.N.

[Secret Reports on Nazi Germany: The Frankfurt School Contribution to the War Effort]
FRANZ NEUMANN
HERBERT MARCUSE
OTTO KIRCHHEIMER
http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jc8f3

No Frankfurt School Marxists... No WWII? --- 

IOW, to what extent did the Frankfurt School Marxists and their social-engineering NWO Deep-State cohorts instigate and prime the global stage for WWII?

71 posted on 09/11/2017 8:46:56 AM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: JBW1949

Interesting you bring up the Frankfurt School - It’s founder was a diehard sodomite. The Nazi Party was created by homosexuals. All of its top leaders were flaming sodomites - including Hitler.

The night of the “Long Daggers” was when the “butch” hardcore Sadomasochist SS faction murdered all the effeminate fags in the Party.

I highly recommend to you the book, written by Scott Lively, The Pink Swastika, now in it’s 5th Ed. It provides great detail about the origins and purpose of the Frankfurt School. This is the very root of the gay and transgender plans against humanity in general, and specifically Christianity.


72 posted on 09/11/2017 9:07:36 AM PDT by JME_FAN
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To: NRx

Zero chance of this passing.


73 posted on 09/12/2017 11:31:03 AM PDT by WatchungEagle
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To: plain talk

Too decisive for them.


74 posted on 09/13/2017 3:13:00 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: SkyDancer

You missed the memo. Amongst the SJWs, it’s not ‘Israel’. The proper terminology is ‘Occupied Palestine’.


75 posted on 09/13/2017 6:44:45 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Kriggerel
Yeah. Tell them there were no such people as Palestinians prior to 1948. Want to win a bar bet with one? Tell them here's a fiver if you can name the last king of Palestine or:

If you consider Palestine to be a “Sovereign” and “Independent” country that goes back through most of recorded history as many would have you to believe, then a few questions need to be answered:


76 posted on 09/13/2017 6:51:54 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Notice How Our Symbol Of America Is Brown And White?)
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To: SkyDancer

Trust me, I’ve tried similar. I just get shouted down with shriller and shriller slogans, so I finally give up and walk away, and let them have their ‘victory’.


77 posted on 09/13/2017 7:04:59 PM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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