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Coalition Seeks to Send North Korea to International Court Over Rights Abuses
NYT ^ | OCT. 25, 2014 | SOMINI SENGUPTA

Posted on 10/25/2014 5:24:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Coalition Seeks to Send North Korea to International Court Over Rights Abuses

By SOMINI SENGUPTA OCT. 25, 2014

UNITED NATIONS — Seven months after a groundbreaking report documenting how North Korea tortured and starved its citizens, a broad coalition of countries is pushing for the first time to refer Pyongyang to the International Criminal Court for prosecution of crimes against humanity.

Japan and the European Union circulated a draft resolution last week among United Nations member states that encourages the Security Council to refer North Korea to the tribunal in The Hague; 43 countries have so far signed on in support. The move builds on Secretary of State John Kerry’s bid last month to raise the profile of rights violations in North Korea by hosting an unusual session devoted to the issue on the sidelines of the General Assembly’s annual conclave.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: icc; nkorea
While symbolic, this move certainly riled Norks. Apparently Kim Jong-un takes it very seriously. Their diplomats have been all over the place to woo various member countries of UN.
1 posted on 10/25/2014 5:24:10 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What difference does it make? They’ll totally isolated except for China and other rogue regimes. If Swiss boarding schools stopped enrolling the offspring of their Elites, that might have an impact.


2 posted on 10/25/2014 5:26:26 PM PDT by rbg81
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I don’t think Chia chub care


3 posted on 10/25/2014 5:27:42 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

This must be a serious blemish to the image of a godly leader since it is about to be approved universally in most of the world.


4 posted on 10/25/2014 5:27:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Iran and Venezuela will be the first to join in on the UN Human Rights Committee. </sarc>


5 posted on 10/25/2014 5:29:31 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Hans Brix isn’t getting fooled a second time.


6 posted on 10/25/2014 5:32:08 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks ( Laughter is the best medicine, unless you have diarrhea.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

.........dangerous road for the US to go down!

..,,,.because as sure as the sun comes up they will be coming after a conservative President someday!


7 posted on 10/25/2014 5:34:01 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: rbg81; SevenofNine
This development probably reminds them of the fate of Khmer Rouge leaders, Rwanda massacre orchestrators, and Saddam Hussein. Kim Jong-un is about to become a certified runner-up. Words will spread into N. Korea and it could make a dent on their meticulously maintained personality cult.
8 posted on 10/25/2014 5:36:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Yup.

Just look at the UN’s galling attempt to force Detroit to give away free water.


9 posted on 10/25/2014 5:53:21 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
and what was the straw that finally broke the camel's back... somebody didn't get paid???
10 posted on 10/25/2014 5:58:53 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Probably won’t happen though.


11 posted on 10/25/2014 6:42:39 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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China and Russia both have deals in NK


12 posted on 10/25/2014 6:43:10 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Why would it be a blemish? The people of NK will never hear about it. And they’d never call him “Godly” because that would imply there is a God and in NK he is above that.


13 posted on 10/25/2014 6:44:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Yeah I think Chia Chub is on runner up on that lOL!


14 posted on 10/25/2014 7:06:11 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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