Posted on 12/22/2017 12:13:21 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Friday that significantly choke off new fuel supplies and order North Koreans working overseas to return home within two years, in what may prove the last test of whether any amount of economic pressure can force it to reverse course on its nuclear program.
The sanctions, adopted by a vote of 15 to 0, were the third imposed this year in an escalating effort to force the North into negotiations. China and Russia joined in the resolution, though American officials have charged that in recent months the Russians have secretly been opening new links to the North, including new internet connections that give the country an alternative to communicating primarily through China.
Under the new sanctions, oil exports will be limited to their current level, which has already begun to result in shortages around the country. Countries around the world will be ordered to expel North Korean workers, a key source of hard currency. Nations would also be urged to inspect all North Korean shipping and halt ship-to-ship transfers of fuel, which the North has used to evade sanctions.
But the resolution does not permit countries to hail and board North Korean ships in international waters, which the Trump administration proposed earlier this year. That would be the most draconian measure, because it would enable the United States Navy and its Pacific allies to create a cordon around the country, though Pentagon officials say it would also carry a high risk of triggering a firefight between North Korea and foreign navies.
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North Korea should have voted against the UN Jerusalem Capitol Resolution.
What did they do?
This is YUGE news.
Hmmm, perhaps the U. N. has finally grasped it won’t be seen as a strong leading organization if Trump trumps them with regard to North Korea.
N. K. workers have two years to repatriate.
What’s the rush? The U. N. is still a wanker organization.
It’s operating on a ninth grade level while Trump operates in a post doctoral environment. (by comparison)
Proving that their vote on Jerusalem was just for show, and that they still understand that Trump is Batman! ;-)
Coming next will be a humanitarain crisis that will be exploited for all it’s worth. Aided and abetted by the left here and our mainstream media.
I would much rather see a fast powerful military strike meant to send the Norks back to the... uh....what is long before the stone age?
"There were three stone ages - the neolithic, the mesolithic and the paleolithic ages. The paleolithic was the age in which early humans first began to use stone tools. The mesolithic is the first age when early humans used highly developed stone tools and the neolithic was the age when humans first developed agriculture and began experimenting with metals like gold and copper."
The general consensus amongst prehistorians is that before the paleolithic age humans used wooden tools for a variety of tasks - wood being much easier to work with than stone. Because of the age involved and the fact that wood decays, unlike stone, there is little evidence of this theoretical "Wooden Age", however most prehistorians believe such evidence will, one day, be found. "
Radiocarbon dating has confirmed that three wooden spears found in a coal mine in Schöningen, near Hannover, Germany, are the oldest complete hunting weapons ever found. Some 380,000 to 400,000 years old, the six- to 7.5-foot javelins were found in soil whose acids had been neutralized by a high concentration of chalk near the coal pit. They suggest that early man was able to hunt, and was not just a scavenger. The development of such weapons may have been crucial to the settling of Stone Age northern Europe, whose cold climate and short daylight hours limited hunting."
(Ahem)
I know this is way more than you wanted....it's real slow here, .....Merry Christmas.
A boiling cauldron of abiotic gases?
Russia in fact complaFor Russia’s consent, the deadline was extended from 12 to 24 months.
Russia did not accept the deadline for repatriating NK workers that was agreed by US and China. In order to get Russia to approve it was extended from 12 to 24 months.
Why? Read this:
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