What a crazy weekend. While we wile away our time watching college and pro football, the Kin Jung Il led North Korea tests a nuclear weapon. While the Democrats go all apoplectic over an already-resigned gay Republican House member, the No. Koreans explode a nuke. While the Leftists of the world worry about restaurants in New York City using trans fats in their food, and global warming, and gays not being able to marry, and over how many unborn fetuses might actually grow up to be voting human beings if Roe v. Wade is ever overturned, the James Bond villian of our time has decided to show the world that he has something to sell to all the Isamic terrorists that is well worth ponying up the big bucks! So, what’s the world to do about this? Claudia Rosett has this suggestion:

But seriously, if the UN has any interest whatsoever in addressing the clear and present danger of a nuclear-bomb-brandishing North Korea, there is something the UN could do, pronto. It could expel North Korea. That might not solve the long-festering problem of a totalitarian state that to this day runs a Stalin-style gulag, peddles missiles, narcotics and counterfeit currency, and has starved to death at least one million of its own people and staked its fortunes on a nuclear arsenal. But kicking North Korea out of the UN would at least provide the sort of minimal diplomatic gesture of which the UN is presumably capable. And for those inside North Korea who harbor well-founded doubts about the wisdom of their sociopathic “Dear Leader” and his murderous retinue, such a move would almost certainly come as valuable encouragement.

As she points out, No. Korea has only been a UN member for the past 15 years, so it’s not like they were there when it was formed. Then, she follows up with:

What has the UN contributed to all this? Money and prestige for Kim Jong-Il; a seat as a member of — I’m not kidding —the UN Conference on Disarmament; and a General Assembly stage upon which Kim’s reprentative, Choe Su Hon, had a chance just last month to strut, fret, and luxuriate in UN membership, along with such notables as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez. By now, as North Korea’s regime celebrates its first declared nuclear test, the very least the UN could do is yank the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea placard from its place in the General Assembly hall, revoke all DPRK passes for the UN grounds, and tell Kim and his representative “excellencies” to get out.

I’m pretty much ready to have the UN “get out”, period. But, until that day comes, if ever, getting rid of those that have absolutely no intention to honor any International agreements — have only death and destruction to offer to the rest of humanity, are only interested in developing or acquiring weapons of mass destruction to either use or sell to others bent on using them — should be at the top of our priority list.

Let the embargo begin . . . (db)

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