By Carla Stea
[Editor’s Note; This article first appeared at Globalresearch.ca, on December 12, 2017 with the title “Day of Infamy for the UN Security Council: Triggering a Devastating Humanitarian Crisis in North Korea]
In view of the collapse of the DPRK’s socialist economic system these sanctions are intended to provoke, the ultimate question remains why China and Russia failed to veto these sanctions, while they have the power to prevent this catastrophe. What “arrangements” were made? Has the U.S. juggernaut succeeded in inducing the short-sighted submission of Russia and China, who must certainly anticipate the horrific results of a collapse of the DPRK, which will lead to the complete destabilization of the Eurasian continent, a permanent American military presence, and probably nuclear war. Surely Russia must remember that Gorbachev was assured by U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, that, in return for the Soviet Union’s agreement to the reunification of Germany,
“NATO will not expand one inch east of Berlin.”
Today Russia is surrounded by NATO bases. Was Gorbachev gullible or treacherous? Russians frequently suspect the latter.
All five permanent members of the Security Council are themselves are in gross violation of Article 6 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, which requires their divesting their military arsenals of nuclear weapons; they are, instead, investing trillions of dollars in upgrading “nukes.” Article 6 of the NPT requires their negotiating, in good faith, a treaty to abolish nuclear weapons,; this United Nations treaty was adopted this year, ignored by Russia and China, and opposed by the US, UK and France in a virulent campaign. The US is also violating article 1 of the NPT, placing nuclear weapons in 5 NATO countries: these 5 countries, including Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, and Germany are in violation of Article 2 of the NPT. In violation of the NPT, themselves, the Permanent 5 members of the Security Council have absolutely no right to condemn the DPRK, which is not even a party to the NPT.
United Nations Security Council resolution 2397 dooms the UN to a legacy of destruction of stable, progressive independent nations including Iraq, Libya, and now the DPRK.
Prior to the adoption of resolution, 2397, the UN Human Rights Commissioner revealed that the tough sanctions already imposed on the DPRK are obstructing delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid. As a result, 70% of the population, 18 million North Koreans suffer from acute food shortages. Sanctions obstructing international bank transfers are blocking UN ground operations, preventing delivery of food, medical equipment and other humanitarian aid.
According to AFP:
“Aid groups are facing hurdles to clear customs for goods destined for North Korea, to ensure procurement and transport of aid supplies, as well as rising food prices that have shot up 160% since April,’ said UN Assistant Secretary-General Miroslav Jenca.”
On December 9, NBC news reported:
“The Trump administration’s primary North Korea strategy would do little to curb the country’s nuclear program, and could trigger a famine, according to experts. The White House is urging China to turn off oil supplies to the 25 million Koreans…many analysts say such a move would have minimal impact on North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs, and would instead hit the country’s agricultural sector, potentially leading to mass starvation.”
Dr. David Von Hippel, a senior adviser at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability warned the results of an oil embargo could have a catastrophic impact on a humanitarian level.
“An oil cutoff would drastically reduce the amount of domestically grown food available to the civilian population….What arable land there is the DPRK farms intensively. They rely on tractors, irrigation pumps, refrigerators and transportation trucks to harvest and distribute food before it rots….even the current level of sanctions imposed in September (Resolution 2375) will impoverish North Korea’s breadbasket.”
On October 25 UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the DPRK, Tomas Quintana stated that he was
“alarmed by reports that sanctions may have prevented cancer patients from access to chemotherapy…the shipment of wheelchairs and essential equipment for persons with disabilities is now constrained…humanitarian actors are facing difficulties to source much-needed supplies and carry out international financial transactions.”
Following his return from Pyongyang, UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman stated:
“What I was concerned about was the reduction in programs for the DPRK. The program is only 30 percent funded. It’s having a large impact on how the UN can deliver on its humanitarian programs. I was concerned about the overall lack of funding…which affects the UN’s ability to deliver life-saving equipment on the ground.”
This humanitarian disaster is neither accidental nor coincidental. All this information was publicly available to all 15 members of the Security Council prior to December 22, when they inflicted even more deadly sanctions on the people of North Korea. The Security Council is an accessory to these crimes. Though they boast, irresponsibly, that the sanctions contain “humanitarian exemption,” how do they explain the alarming failure to implement these “humanitarian exemptions,” and the fact that the tragic victims of these criminal and fatal sanctions are the majority of the people of North Korea?
The damning answer is revealed in the investigation of the failure of “humanitarian aid” in the case of sanctions against Iraq, which resulted in another humanitarian catastrophe, including the death from starvation of more than half a million Iraqi children. In a brilliant work of investigative journalism by Joy Gordon, entitled “Cool War: Economic Sanctions as a Weapon of Mass Destruction,” (Published in Harper’s, 2002) Ms. Gordon States:
“News of Iraqi fatalities has been well documented (by the United Nations, among others), though under reported by the media. What has remained invisible, however, is any documentation of how and by whom such a death toll has been justified for so long…..But I soon learned that all U.N. records that could answer my questions were kept from public scrutiny. This is not to say that the UN is lacking in public documents related to the Iraq program. What is unavailable are the documents that show how the U.S. policy agenda has determined the outcome of humanitarian and security judgments…The operation of Iraq sanctions involves numerous agencies within the United Nations…These agencies have been careful not to publicly discuss their ongoing frustration with the manner in which the program is operated…
The diplomats who heedlessly refer to failed “humanitarian exemptions” to these DPRK sanctions are privy to the facts excavated by Joy Gordon, and published in Harpers, and these diplomats are aware of the actual cause of the failure of “humanitarian aid.” This failure is the deliberate, premeditated killing of innocent North Koreans, and that is the purpose of these sanctions, which do not, in fact, affect the nuclear program. In any civilized, responsible organization, the perpetrators of these sanctions would be convicted of premeditated murder….
North Korea is not an aggressor: they fought successfully against brutal Japanese colonization, and were then provoked into defending themselves from guerrilla attacks by U.S. client Syngman Rhee’s army, in 1949, which violated the 38 parallel to attack North Korea, the provocation that ignited the Korean War of 1950-1953. Today, the US, South Korea and Japan are imperiling the survival of North Korea with their incessant military threats.
In the 1950-1953 U.S. led UN attack of North Korea, more than 3-4 million North Koreans were murdered by carpet-bombing, napalm, germ warfare and other weapons of mass destruction. These figures are confirmed by US General Curtis LeMay, and numerous others involved in perpetrating this massacre of North Koreans. As traumatic memories of the slaughter of 1 million Armenians by the Turks over 100 years ago still fester within the lives of today’s Armenians, as Hitler’s genocide of 6 million Jews 70 years ago cannot be forgotten by today’s Jews, so the massacre of more than three million North Koreans by a US controlled UN army can never be forgotten by North Korea, whose government is determined to protect North Korea from a repetition of this horror. And the only weapon that might deter the United States from another attempt to totally destroy the last remaining socialist country is their nuclear weapon, which might require the US to think twice before another attack.
Thus, an alternative method of slaughter, UN Security Council Resolution 2397, despite alarming warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences , ruthlessly cuts 90 percent of oil supplies to the DPRK; the resolution demands that 150,000 North Koreans working in other countries must be expelled, and have their jobs eliminated within 24 months, exacerbating the impoverishment of North Korea; in addition to other restrictions, and together with a large number of previous travel bans against individuals crucial to the economic sector of the DPRK, Resolution 2397 includes further travel bans against 15 key members of the economic sector, and foreign trade representatives.
Ambassador Han Tae Song, at the UN in Geneva earlier stated:
“It is obvious that the aim of the sanctions is to overthrow the system of my country by isolating and stifling it and to intentionally bring about humanitarian disaster instead of preventing weapons development as claimed by the U.S. and its followers.”
On December 7 it was reported that South Korea will spend almost $1,000,000.00 to purchase drones and grenade machine guns, for a “Decapitation Unit” to murder Kim Jong UN. This, of course is not only criminal homicide, it is in violation of international law. On December 10 Reuters reported that Japan, the US and South Korea will hold additional military drills, immediately following the December 4 US- South Korea large-scale military drills held the prior week. This is an incessant military threat to the survival of the people and government of North Korea, and an intolerable provocation. On December 17 South Korean and U.S. forces conducted a joint military plan to invade North Korea, ostensibly to “remove weapons of mass destruction.” This “Warrior Strike” military exercise was held at Camp Stanley, north of Seoul, near the 38 parallel. US commander of Forces Korea Vincent Brooks, and Lt. General Thomas Vandal were present at the “Warrior Strike” military drills.
By November 28, the government of the DPRK had not tested anything for almost three months. Instead of attempting peaceful negotiations in this stable atmosphere, as required by all Security Council Resolutions, the US, on the contrary, escalated its military threats against North Korea, with a series of deadly military drills. It is therefore preposterous that U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stated on December 15 that North Korea must “earn” the right to negotiations. North Korea had conspicuously halted any testing for almost three months prior, and instead of seizing the opportunity to establish negotiations for peace, the US aggressively increased military threats.
The DPRK Foreign Ministry called US President Trump’s national security strategy
“the most recent American policy seeking to stifle our country and turn the entire Korean peninsula into an outpost of American hegemony… Trump is seeking total subordination of the whole world.”
UN Security Council Resolution 2397 will be fatal to North Korea’s economy. It will destroy the majority of the people, but have little or no impact on weapons development.
Carla Stea is Global Research’s Correspondent at United Nations headquarters, New York.
That last paragraph is very thought -provoking:
“UN Security Council Resolution 2397 will be fatal to North Korea’s economy. It will destroy the majority of the people, but have little or no impact on weapons development.”
The common factor in world turmoil is all for a small financial elite who make money on any side that is involved with war, all the institutes of international status, most charities are all participants in these organizations are their for paid travel holidays, sex, money and status.
They exist to confuse people and are meant to be disconnected from the masses and use language meant and the meaning to be misunderstood.
Can’t gainsay you on that, Don.
Here is the author of this article, Carla Stea, with a point of view not usually aired at GumshoeNews:
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You may recall that my case is in Appeals, regarding Trump’s unconstitutional threat to send nukes to NK. (Maxwell v President of the United States).
Another plaintiff has already given oral argument in his appeal, altho it has to do with Islamic State. Captain Nathan Smith. Here is a comment from the Yale news:
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https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2017/11/06/yale-prof-presents-case-against-trump/
Could this explain what is going on?
From this site http://www.chooseyourside.org/
World domination, the NWO is HERE, now
Government structure doesn’t matter so much as the banking, because Treaties are agreements between banks, all of these “countries” (corporations) are commissioned by US Congress, which has had world dominion (the King) since 1941 Atlantic Charter. In Roman law, winner takes all (is the King) as per the rules of the Exchequer READ IT HERE.
How Canada is commissioned by Congress: CANADA (XI) and Canada corp. commissioned by Congress listed on the US Securities & Exchange Commission
US & COMMONWEALTH agreements
China agreement agreement
Yalta, Russia agreement
United States Note to Japan
Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea
Charter of the United Nations
They own all the land, all the banks, all the courts and your patented last names that you use thereby giving them consent, so they pretty much have WORLD DOMINATION, don’t you think? It’s called the New Word Order, which is printed right on their dollar bills in the Latin phrase “novus ordo seclorum”, it is not a conspiracy, it’s very real and everything is written, it’s only a matter of putting it all together.
There are many, over history who have known this scheme and have written it down in overt texts, but it is also hidden in codes to warn humanity against such practices (Ba’al – ism and language of Babylon (to babble on, legalese). One such text is the BIBLE. The Old Testament is a manifesto for their slavery system, Roman law government/Talmud. The New Testament instructs us on how to be free of it. Read some interpretations on the INTERPRETATIONS page. Jesus tells the way.
Well, DDave, I gave that link. try and can see it is full of foolishness, at least in my opinion. For example, it says:
“There is only judicial immunity IF there is a JUDGE and hasn’t been since 1789. Up until now, nobody could get evidence on the record due to attorneys work product doctrine and Stare Decisis under communistic courts and due to all these “rights” they’ve sold you, they’d sweep evidence right off the record! They did this because they didn’t want insurance to know they were perpetrating war crimes (which is not covered by insurance)…”
I can’t trust anyone who would produce such a website. It has value tho in expressing anger. We need that.
You may be right Mary though she says her understanding comes from experience and delving into the documents. If you want clarification she said her Skype name is tpepperman.
How many times have I read the various Charters, Conventions, Treaties, Bibles, Articles, Doctrines etc Well I have not yet. The marvellous internet makes it possible to defragment information and assemble it such that it is coherent and brings our understanding closer to that which is.
Deep down I sense there is more to learn from her thoughts and experiences. I suspend my belief and wander through this information, with my fertile imagination, to consider the possibilities and how we may be fooled by the reality constructed for us by our schooling, media, culture. Yes Mary, I am suspicious of what I believe to be true. Truth can not be told, it must be realised and her website is about the artificial world governed by man’s law.
This artificial world of man is becoming increasingly out of harmony with nature.
Is adding fluoride waste from industry to our drinking water in harmony with nature?
Is vaccinating with mercury, aluminium and other metals and other materials in harmony with nature?
Is farming with chemicals, pesticides, herbercides and chemical fertilisers in harmony with nature?
Is spraying flyash or similar into the atmosphere and the air we breathe in harmony with nature?
We can write a long list of our failure to live in harmony with nature.
There will be further consequences until we human beings say no and rediscover what nature has perfected through billions of years.
Re1789 from the site http://www.chooseyourside.org/
2) The first taxing agency the banks created by the 1789 Judiciary Act. There have been NO LAWFUL JUDGES since this Act (evidenced by our Order). They were supposed to be collecting taxes from corporations, which are core processes. Then, later on, they perverted that again and called it the IRS. The original courts, the 1789 Judiciary Act established a bank routing system where every thing that you do goes through, it allowed courts to be places of business (banks). These “judges” (Chief banking officers) sit on the bench (bench means BANK). When you go to a judge for “justice”, you are going to be administered to offset Congressional debt, NOT for any lawful judgement…they are attorneys in black dresses! Congress trafficks human beings and facilitates genocide.
This is how they get around the Sheriff (the treasury) so they cannot act as they were intended, a steward for humanity. The Sheriff was the bank (treasury), if something happened, his role was to take care of it, there wasn’t any banking or human trafficking, attorneys cashing in on human’s problems – that is where our money is supposed to be going, but it’s not, Congress came in and started undercutting all the Sheriffs (they are embezzling from the treasury (us)!)
To DDave: i do not agree with your wild statements such as:
“The original courts, the 1789 Judiciary Act established a bank routing system where every thing that you do goes through, it allowed courts to be places of business (banks). These “judges” (Chief banking officers) sit on the bench (bench means BANK). When you go to a judge for “justice”, you are going to be administered to offset Congressional debt, NOT for any lawful judgement….”
Well put, donWreford.
The United Nations Organisation was meant to be a criminal organisation from day one, to control all nation states on behalf of the criminally insane members of “THE CABAL”.
It is the US Government and Military that is the enforcer at all times, of intentional mass murder. And our fool politicians cower along behind this arrogant cowardly group of philistines.
The United Nations Organisation, Nato and other such false peacemaking organisations need to be dismantled, for humanities chances of survival.
If sanctions really work, there should be sanctions placed on the US by the rest of the World, to bring it in line with reality. If this were to happen, then THE CABAL would also wither and die, as it would have no “drones” to do its dirty work.
Latest shooting another false flag?
Um probably. My research is showing signs of MKUltra 2.0 in the Gladio style.
The photos of this kid being arrested show him to be shocked.
Did they set up a special needs kid as a patsy?
That’s f@%£cing low.
Same as other ffs the info came out too fast too soon.
Vids of survivors saying three shooters.
Interesting – lots of black powder in the hallway of the building. Black gunpowder is residue of blank rounds.
WTF really happened
I have posted this before… But as a reminder — It seems easy to get control of someone’s mind. Derren Brown controls this young lad’s mind to kill Stephen Fry. You can jump to 41.30 on for a few minutes.
Maybe murder is a consequence of eating red juicy meat .
By God’s commandments it is strictly forbidden . “Thou shall not kill .”
Once that line is crossed , killing animals or humans is not much difference to the demons
that always manage to get on top of the food chain . Human kinds murder of all living things is exponentially worse than the most ferocious animals , cause even tigers lions sharks etc. only kill enough to eat .
The perpetrators of murder have made all these industries solely for the profit of evil and the destruction of Creation .
Take it how you like but vegan diets may be the only way to world peace .
“Democracy is like two wolves and a lamb deciding who’s going to be for dinner .”
– Al Thompson .
I say the two wolves and they had better the heck watch out.
So what does all this have to do with cutting trade relations with N Korea(sanctification) ?
I say the two wolves are in hot water and they know it.