The UN is Useless: Part MCVII
If they have any credibility left, the UN really need to tell them to pound sand (Via. Japundit)
BEIJING — North Korea has written letters to the United Nations calling for a human rights investigation into Japan’s treatment of Koreans resident in Japan, the official Korean Central News Agency reported Sunday.
“The DPRK permanent representative at the United Nations sent letters to the U.N. secretary general and the president of the U.N. General Assembly on July 6 as regards the Japanese authorities’ evermore pronounced suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon),” KCNA said.
Update: It gets worse
WASHINGTON — The State Department said Monday that what North Korea has shut down under a six-party deal cut in February is a 5-megawatt nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, one of the five facilities that Pyongyang agreed to close with a U.N. nuclear watchdog.
The department issued the statement in response to a media inquiry about which of the five nuclear facilities the IAEA confirmed North Korea has shut down.
“The International Atomic Energy Agency has verified that North Korea has shut down the 5-megawatt reactor at the Yongbyon complex, and intends to verify the status of the remaining four facilities by Wednesday, July 18,” the department said in a statement.
The five consist of the four facilities in Yongbyon — the 5-megawatt nuclear reactor, a spent fuel reprocessing facility, a 50-megawatt reactor under construction and a fuel fabrication plant — as well as a 200-megawatt reactor under construction in Taechon.
Washington used the plural form of “nuclear facilities in Yongbyon” when referring to what was closed, but Pyongyang used the singular form of “the Yongbyon nuclear facility” in announcing the closure.
Last time I checked, wordplay is not a human rights violation.
