Should the United Nations do more than just sanctions for North Korea ???

Question

What do you think should be done?
What are your thoughts on this subject?

Answer 1

I think that the UN is a waste of time, a toothless left wing talking shop. Amongst its members are countries run by despots. Iran and Israel are members, and the former wants to destroy the latter.

Answer 2

No nation except perhaps the United States can do anything so we have to try to influence them. Unfortunately sanctions always hurt the ordinary people. Armed intervention would hurt more. However to invade or nuke a nuclear armed North Korea would have most undesirable consequences. And would not have world support. So it's just a matter of using the maximum sanctions we can this side of barbarity. Of course if North Korea used their nuclear armoury we would have to support the US taking the country out despite the loss of civilian lives.And US should make it clear it would do this.

Answer 3

I'd like to know why the whole world has to do it the American way? The Americans have nukes, we have some dotted around too. The American Administration wants the whole world to be like America ... is it called Globalisation. Let's make the world into America? Why? Why is it that we can have nukes and yet Iran and North Korea can not? Is it because we think they are unstable regimes....they probably do not think they are unstable but the unfairness of some countries having and others not having only adds pressure to bad feelings and relations between countries. America stop bossing everyone around with your Do As I Say not Do As I Do rhetoric.....it's just not cricket.
Maybe we should ask China to play a more active role in negotiating with Korea.....two Asian mentalities coming to an arrangement rather than a West and East confrontation.

Answer 4

Not yet. The US is still reeling from the mistake it made in acting too hastily with Iraq. The UN needs to follow the Chapter 7 policy one step at a time. Chapter 7 does state they can call for a war, but sanctions is a good first step to show NK that all of the UN, including China and Russia, are fed up. If NK furthers with thy're hostility, or shows signs that they may aid Iran and Iraq with more missile tschnology/ nuclear technology, like they have before, then there may be cause for war time actions such as naval blockades and limiting air traffic over NK.

Answer 5

When North Korea wanted to talk to the US, soon after 9/11, Rumsfeld responded by saying "We don't talk to Evil" Oh, what a talented diplomat he is !

So who can blame them for getting nuked up, just like China, Israel, UK, US, India, Pakistan, etc ? Why shouldn't they ? OK, North Korea is governed by a lunatic, but so are many of the other nuked up countries.

If Rumsfeld had quietly sat down with Kim Ill Jong, we wouldn't have this dilemma today.

Answer 6

Absolutely. We told them "Don't do it or else." They said "We might." We said "Don't do it or else." They said, "We will." We said, "Don't do it or else." They said, "We did." Now where is the "or else?" Instead we have more sanction talk. And you want to know why? Because they aren't on our list. Now Iran IS. Iran may or may not be a danger to our security. But they ARE on our list. North Korea, however, though having taken every step but actually lobbing one over at us, is not on the list, and therefore is not subject to invasion or bombings. This list I'm referring to, if you're wondering, is that of the neo-cons. I am a true conservative, but having studied the neo-con agenda, I can tell you Afghanistan was first on the list before 9/11, followed by Iraq. Iran is next, followed by Syria. North Korea gets a relatively free pass.

Answer 7

The United Nations is a bunch of crooks stealing whatever they can get their hands on. Russia, China, France and Germany are too busy selling military and nuclear technology to rogue countries. If they supported sanctions, it would not be in their financial interests.

Answer 8

The United Nations should agree to disarm all nuclear weapons and all countries should do this, including the US, Britain, France, Russia, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel!
Otherwise they should shut up being hypocrites and the lap dogs of the US -- the only country that has used nuclear weapons!

Answer 9

No! What right have they to tell another country that they can't have the same weapons they have!

They tested their when it suited them. People around the world didn't want them to test their's!

It is because they are strong and N Korea is weak they think they can bully them. Why did they not stop Israel when they developed their nuclear weapons?

Answer 10

Sanctions are a waste of time.

N. Korea needs to be taken down, and quickly. For once, it shouldn't be the U.S. that goes in. We're too busy fighting an idiotic war to put money in our idiotic president's war chest.