North Korea claims sanctions threaten the survival of its children

American Thinker ^ | 09/21/2017 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

Han Tae-song, Pyongyang's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, took advantage of a hearing by a U.N. committee on children to whine about how sanctions "seriously threaten" the health and well-being of North Korea's children.

What's ironic about the ambassador's warning is that the hearing he was testifying at was held to look into independent allegations of forced child labor, sexual abuse, and trafficking in North Korea.

Reuters:

Han said North Korea, whose population is 26 million, is a "people-centered socialist country... where protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of the child are given top priority ... There is room for improvement."

But Han said that new sanctions imposed by the United States and the U.N. Security Council over North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile tests were hampering the production of nutritional goods for children and provision of textbooks.

"The persistent and vicious blockade and sanctions against the DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) are not only hampering the endeavors for the protection and promotion of the rights of the child but also seriously threatening their right to survival," he said, calling for sanctions to be lifted.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously imposed nine rounds of sanctions on North Korea since 2006, the latest earlier this month capping fuel supplies to the isolated state.

Han said that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un – denounced by U.S. President Donald Trump as "Rocket Man" – "personally guides the construction in different parts of the country of schoolchildren's palaces, children's hospitals, baby homes, children's homes, and primary and secondary boarding schools and works with devotion for the well-being of the young generation".

I think I'm going to be sick.

[SeekAndFind]

The way that the Kim regime distributes food. The priorities are:

1. The communist leadership

2. The military leadership

3. Individual soldiers

4. Peasants

Whether it’s a commentary on communist society or not, the last drought resulted in many parents denying food to their children so the adults could eat. Apparently, North Korean society does not foster parental instincts.

[P.O.E.]

It takes a North Korean village.

[Professional]

Baby milk factory...

[Brandonmark]

Easy solution: take the money spent on rockets and bombs and feed the damn children!

[C210N]

I agree with the first 3 items on your list.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Asians and children hurt the most. Trump must be a racist. RocketBoy is a real democrat.

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[DoughtyOne]

There are times when it’s hard to figure out of the DNC is getting it’s talking points from Kim, or if Kim is getting his talking points from them.

[familyop]

South Korea is providing direct aid to North Korean children in the form of food, medicines and other necessities.

[Mears]

The army gets fed first,then the children.

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[hal ogen]

Like starving their population to death, forcing them to eat grass and tree bark isn’t affecting their “children”. Please. I call BS.

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[Vermont Lt]

Oh, it’s about the children.

Well, grow food and spend some money on things other than a million person Army and hydrogen bombs.

It’s pretty damned easy.

[Mark17]

There are times when it’s hard to figure out of the DNC is getting it’s talking points from Kim, or if Kim is getting his talking points from them.

I am surprised it has taken this long, but when all else fails, then it’s all about the children. Typical.

[aquila48]

The most corrupt and vile people always hide behind “the children” when their asses are on the line.

[Rembrandt]

For us, that’s the primary job of the Democrat Party.

[blueplum]

It’s also a country that steals brains. And steals organs of it’s ‘political prisoners’ who his people are taught are
‘not human’.

Maybe he should sell some of that rocket fuel for food.

[Widget Jr]

"Han said...where protection and promotion of the rights and welfare of the child are given top priority."

Not particularly grateful, since the South is already sending food. No doubt Kim would have preferred to pocket the dollars for himself. The advantage of giving food is that if they don't distribute it, the ROK conscience is clear to refuse next time.

[blueplum]

schoolchildren's palaces, children's hospitals, baby homes, children's homes, and primary and secondary boarding schools

And btw, is there an epidemic of parental deaths in North Korea or are the 'baby homes' a result of tearing children away from their parents to be raised from birth by propagandists?