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doing what we do & not what we say .....

doing what we do & not what we say .....

Aahh, those evil north koreans have done it again …. threatening world peace, freedom & democracy. Another meltdown … the sky is falling, the sky is falling … what will we do …

According to the Herald, communist North Korea says it launched a communications satellite as part of a peaceful space programme. The United States and its regional allies see the exercise as a disguised long-range missile test in defiance of UN resolutions.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/north-koreas-kim-jongil-a-skilled-and-ruthless-ruler-20090405-9t1l.html

At the beginning of last week, a top Japanese diplomat said that the upcoming rocket launch would hurt international talks on scrapping Pyongyang’s nuclear programme.

Japanese nuclear negotiator Akitaka Saiki made the remarks after discussing the six-party negotiations with Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, Jiji Press reported. “The (rocket) issue cannot be separated from the six-way talks, which is a diplomatic process aimed at the peace and stability of the Asian region,” Saiki told journalists.

If Pyongyang goes ahead with the launch, he said, “we shared the recognition that we could not resume talks as if nothing had happened.”

North Korea, which is involved in the six-party talks along with South Korea, China, Japan, the United States & Russia, had announced that it will launch a communications satellite between April 4 and 8.

The United States, Japan and South Korea believe the North is actually testing a missile that could, in theory, reach Alaska. Japan has said any such launch would violate UN sanctions on North Korea that were implemented after Pyongyang tested a ballistic missile and an atomic bomb in 2006.

As everyone expected, a top US general last week said the United States could shoot down the projectile if it were determined to be a ballistic missile & Japan also said it would shoot down any rocket heading for its territory.

Of course, there are no UN sanctions against ballistic missile tests if they are conducted by the Americans http://www.missilethreat.com/missiledefensesystems/id.45/system_detail.asp or Russia http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/111169.htm or India http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=56963 or France http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?i=4001379 or Pakistan http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sports/pakistan-tests-long-range-hatf-vi-ballistic-missile_10039648.html or Britain http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Polaris:missile.htm or Israel http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gEB-pL7rDR2kQtFab0EZA6mKYAAQ or .... shit, who cares …. they are all as bad as each other …. liars & hypocrites to the core & the Americans are the worst.

mexican agreement...

Obama Calls on U.N. to Punish North Korea Over Rocket By HELENE COOPER and DAN BILEFSKY

PRAGUE — President Obama said that North Korea violated international rules when it unsuccessfully tested a rocket that could be used for long range missiles, and called on the Security Council to take action.

“This provocation underscores the need for action — not just this afternoon at the U.N. Security Council, but in our determination to prevent the spread of these weapons,” Mr. Obama said. “Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.”

But a meeting of the Security Council on Sunday ended without any action being taken, with a pledge to continue discussions on what response it should make given the “serious situation.”

“Members of the Security Council agreed to continue consultations on the appropriate reaction by the council in accordance with its responsibilities given the urgency of the matter,” Claude Heller, the Mexican ambassador to the United Nations who holds the council’s rotating presidency, told reporters.

There is nothing fair about inconsistency.

Well might an American say - "Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something". Fair dinkum.

In the mindset of successive American governments since the early 1900's, any force powerful enough can break any rules, laws, regulations or whatever - and then - use the same words as Barak Obama.

The Middle East Murderers, calling themselves the new Israel have ignored, broken or bypassed any International criteria of decensy, mercy or human rights ever invented.

They have been smacked over the wrists with "a handful of fairy floss" by 101 UN resolutions and still they, and their sponsors in the Zionist lobby of the US Administration, continue to ridicule every modicum of intention to conform to any obligation other than their cult of Mount Zion dictates.

NE OUBLIE.

the usual yankee hypocrisy .....

Obama used the launch in his major address in Prague, which has been characterized as an anti-nuclear speech. "Rules must be binding," he said of North Korea's launch. "Violations must be punished. Words must mean something."

He used Iran to justify a controversial missile system. What about Israel’s nukes and violations?

Many countries around the world certainly see hypocrisy in the Obama administration's position on North Korea. Israel has repeatedly been condemned by the UN for its occupation of Palestinian lands.

Moreover, it has hundreds of nuclear weapons with estimates ranging from 200-400 warheads. What's more, Israel and the US are in league with North Korea in the small club of nations that have refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Other nations include: China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, and Pakistan. In his Prague speech, Obama said his administration "will immediately and aggressively pursue U.S. ratification," saying, "After more than five decades of talks, it is time for the testing of nuclear weapons to finally be banned."

All of this must be kept in context as the "crisis" with North Korea continues to unfold. US hypocrisy on the nuclear issue takes away credibility the US has in its condemnations of North Korea, or Iran, for that matter. "Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat, not just to the United States, but to Iran's neighbors and our allies," Obama said in Prague. Obama used Iran to justify a controverisal central European missile system, saying, "As long as the threat from Iran persists, we will go forward... with a missile defense system that is cost-effective and proven."

Obama did not mention Israel once in his speech and has never acknowledged its nuclear weapons system. Perhaps Obama should ask Arab and Muslim nations in the region what country they see as the biggest nuclear threat.

http://rebelreports.com/post/93467136/us-hypocrisy-on-north-korea-lets-talk-about-israels

ahem .....

Six minutes before 1 o’clock in the afternoon, on Jan. 23, a 173-foot-tall, two-stage rocket lifted off from Northeast Asia.

Capable of carrying a giant 33,000-pound payload, the rocket’s liquid-fuel engine, supplemented by two solid-fuel strap-on booster rockets, generated nearly half a million pounds of thrust before giving way to the second stage, likewise powered by a liquid-fuel engine.

After reaching a height of nearly 430 miles, the rocket released into orbit a 3,850-pound satellite, along with seven smaller probes. Other than the small community of scientists interested in the data expected to be collected from the “Ibuki” Greenhouse Gases Observatory Satellite (GOSAT), the rocket’s main payload, very few people around the world took notice of the launch.

The United Nations Security Council did not meet in an emergency session to denounce the launch, nor did it craft a package of punitive economic sanctions in response. 

The reason?

The rocket in question, the H-2A, was launched by Japan, at its Tanegashima Space Launch Facility.

Deemed an exclusively civilian program, the H-2A has been launched 15 times since its inaugural mission on Aug. 29, 2001. Four of these launches have been in support of exclusively military missions, delivering spy satellites into orbit over North Korea.

Although capable of delivering a modern nuclear warhead to intercontinental ranges, the H-2A is seen as a “non-threatening” system since its liquid-fueled engines require a lengthy fueling process prior to launching, precluding any quick-launch capability deemed essential for a military application.

 

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090417_up_up_and_away_the_wests_hysterical_reaction_to_north_korea/