Against the Move for the U.N. Security Council Sanction against the North Korea: Revealing Obama’s manipulation

It is such an international news that the North Korea launched the communicative satellite (or in the Washington Post’s April 5, headline title, “missile”) in the morning of April 5. The North Korea became the 10th country who launched the satellite in the world.

In the Prague where the people in the Czech Republic are protesting against the US radar, part of the U.S. missile offense system, president Obama’s position is clear in the White House Statement:

“The launch today of a Taepo-dong 2 missile was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718, which expressly prohibits North Korea from conducting ballistic missile-related activities of any kind.”

“We will immediately consult with our allies in the region, including Japan and the Republic of Korea, and members of the U.N. Security Council to bring this matter before the Council. I urge North Korea to abide fully by the resolutions of the U.N. Security Council and to refrain from further provocative actions.”

The United States Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair has already announced in March that he thought the object North Korea was planning to launch was in fact a satellite. And even the mainstream media have been saying the word, “satellite” with the word, “missile” in the laughable and manipulating manners.

Thus, it is really strange that Obama asserts so clearly the phrase of “The launch today of a Taepo-dong 2 missile”. But we soon know that it is for the falsely justifying of the next phrases of “a clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718” and “bring this matter before the [U.N. Security Council]

How a sovereign act of a small, hungry country, whose act is totally legal according to Outer Space Treaty, in 1967 could become such a “threat” in that distorting manner, pulling into the issue of the possible sanction by the United Security Council? And also such a “Top Headline” news?

If it happened in the South Korea, the same thing would happen? But in the South Korea, a colony of the United Stated, the right of satellite launch itself has been not surprisingly tied by the United States. Miserable South Korea!

Principally, there had been nothing to “problem-atize”. But the U.S., Japan and the spineless South Korean government made it as if it was a big “threat”. Neither the U.S. military nor the Japanese government could actually practice the MD as their original saying in the beginning. They knew not only that shooting the legal satellite would be illegal but that with the current MD technology, shooting the target would be just unrealistic and would vehemently embarrass them with a total failure. So their ballooned out talks in the beginning (or Japan’s case, by the last time) proved to have only served the interests of their governments’ or the profits of the military industrial complex.

Now, upon the successful launch of the N.K’s satellite launch, the issue of MD SEEMED to disappear from their words. The changed issue is about the possibility of the sanction by the U.N. Security Council. Resolution 1718 is what we hear. So, the North Korea continues to be a “threat” for the dominant imperial powers expressed in the mainstream media.

The Resolution 1718 was done on October 14, 2006, upon the North Korea’s nuclear weapon test on October 9, 2006. The infamous JOHN BOLTON was the prominent figure at the time.

According to the Korean statement of the Solidarity for Peace And Reunification of Korea, the article 5 of the U.N. Security Council only says that:

“5. Decides that the DPRK shall suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme and in this context re-establish its pre-existing commitments to a moratorium on missile launching;"

The SPARK says there is no article that the UN Security Council 1718 said that the N.K must not launch the satellite. See the resolution if you want.

We may ask: why the North Korea had to develop the nuclear weapon at the time? Let’s try to hear the DPRK’s position even once. In the record of the resolution;

“PAK GIL YON (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) … The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had clarified more than once that it would have no need for even a single nuclear weapon as long as the United States dropped its hostile policies towards his country, and as long as confidence was built between the two countries. Instead, the United States had manipulated the Security Council into adopting a resolution pressurizing Pyongyang.”

It was after the Nuclear Posture Review in 2002 in which the Bush administration aimed the preemptive nuclear attack against the seven countries including China, Russia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lybia and North Korea. The invasion of Iraq broke our in March next year, following the neo-con’s scenario, with the excuse of 9.11.

The paradoxical thing is that the U. S. had to sit down with the North Korea for the success of the six party talks any way since then.

According the Associated Press, Obama continuously decried in the Prague.

“Addressing another potential nuclear foe, Obama said the U.S. will present Iran with "a clear choice" to join the community of nations by ceasing its nuclear and ballistic missile activity or face increased isolation and a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.”

“He said the U.S. will proceed with development of a missile defense system in Europe as long as there is an Iranian threat of developing nuclear weapons. If that threat is removed, he said, "The driving force for missile defense in Europe will be removed."

By clearly manipulating the facts, gaming the words of “threat” applied to the North Korea and Iran, he clarified his position that the development of the Missile Defense will be continuously funded in the United Stats.

Sung-hee Choi
Artist and a member of the Korean Organizing Committee (http://space4peace.tistory.com/)
For the International Conference against the Asia Pacific Missile Defense and for the End of Arms Race, Seoul, South Korea
April 16-18, 2009


* Realted Blogs*

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/04/video-and-text-fwd.html
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Video and Text fwd: CZECH MESSAGE TO OBAMA

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/04/international-joint-action-against-war.html
Saturday, April 4, 2009
International Joint Action against the war on April 4

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/03/text-fwd-for-warm-solidarity-with.html
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Text fwd: For warm solidarity with the friends in the Czech and against the propaganda against the North Korea


* Related articles*

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/04/AR2009040403239.html?hpid=topnews
Defiant N. Korea Launches Missile
Neighbors Express Dismay; U.S. Decries 'Provocative Act'
By Blaine Harden
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, April 5, 2009; Page A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040500024.html?hpid=topnews
White House Statement, April 5, 2009
Sunday, April 5, 2009; 1:48 AM

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/05/AR2009040500260.html?hpid=topnews
Obama launches effort to reduce nuclear arms
By MARK S. SMITH
The Associated Press
Sunday, April 5, 2009; 5:58 AM

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06korea.html?hp
Defying World, North Koreans Launch Rocket
By CHOE SANG-HUN and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: April 5, 2009

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/04/text-fed-obama-arrives-in-prague-amid.html
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Text Fwd: Obama Arrives in Prague Amid Shield Protests

http://nobasestorieskorea.blogspot.com/2009/04/text-fwd-north-korea-rocket-launch.html
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Text Fwd: North Korea: Rocket launch imminent


* Related documents*

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8853.doc.htm
14 October 2006 Security Council
SECURITY COUNCIL CONDEMNS NUCLEAR TEST BY DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1718 (2006)

http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2002/01/npr-foreword.html
Nuclear Posture Review Report

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/ost/text/space1.htm
TREATY ON PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF STATES IN THE EXPLORATION AND USE OF OUTER SPACE, INCLUDING THE MOON AND OTHER CELESTIAL BODIES
Signed at Washington, London, Moscow, January 27, 1967


* Related Korean Statement*
http://www.spark946.org/bugsboard/index.php?BBS=s_news3&action=viewForm&uid=1048
Solidarity for Peace And Reunification Statement upon the N.K launch of the satellite and the Lee, Myung Park government’s move for the U.N. Security Council sanction on April 5, 2009

http://blog.peoplepower21.org/Peace/30788
People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy statement
2009/04/05

http://www.peacekorea.org/main/board/view.php?id=webzine&no=157
Peace Network Statement 2009-04-05


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The articles below informed in StopNATO

http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-05/_Iran_threat_still_persists__so_missile_system_continues__-_Obama.html/print
http://www.russiatoday.com/Top_News/2009-04-05/Czechs_say__no_to_radar__during_Obama_visit.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/barack-obama-missile-shield