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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sojourner Smith who wrote (8045)	4/5/2003 1:49:37 PM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 21614

If the US can ignore the UN...so will we: N.Korea Says Will Ignore Any U.N. Nuclear Ruling Sat April 5, 2003 07:09 AM ET SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Saturday it would not recognize any ruling made by the U.N. Security Council on Pyongyang's nuclear standoff with the United States.The official KCNA news agency said it was "ridiculous" for the Council -- which will start discussing North Korea's suspected nuclear ambitions next Wednesday -- to talk about the crisis. It said the United Nations had lost its mandate by failing to stop the U.S.-led war in Iraq."The DPRK (North Korea) will not recognize but consider invalid any 'resolution' or other document to be adopted by the U.N. Security Council at the meeting," KCNA said.The Security Council agreed on Wednesday to meet on April 9 for an initial round of closed-door discussions.Scheduling of the meeting followed weeks of lobbying by the United States, which has been pressing the 15-nation Council to get together to adopt a statement condemning North Korea.The Vienna-based U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, referred the matter to the Council more than six weeks ago after Pyongyang expelled the IAEA's inspectors and pulled out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).North Korea has already said it would consider U.N. sanctions as a "declaration of war." Wednesday's initial meeting could not impose sanctions but could, in theory, issue a joint statement urging North Korea to fall into line."By nature, the nuclear issue on the Korean peninsula is not one to be discussed at the U.N. in view of its origin and the circumstances of its outbreak," said KCNA. "Moreover, the U.N. seems to have lost its mandate because of the U.S. invasion of Iraq."The official news agency said the crisis had been started by the United States and the Council should indict and punish Washington under international law."It is ridiculous for the U.N. Security Council to talk about handling the DPRK's nuclear issue," it said."If it is ready to perform its function it should call to task the U.S. gangster-like acts of ditching the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework and defying international law and the U.N. before handling the DPRK's nuclear issue."The bilateral 1994 Agreed Framework gave North Korea heavy fuel oil shipments and the prospect of two light-water proliferation-resistant nuclear reactors in return for a halt to Pyongyang's nuclear program.Last October Washington said Pyongyang had admitted to having a covert nuclear program. The oil shipments were stopped.The crisis deepened at the turn of the year when Pyongyang expelled U.N. inspectors and withdrew from the NPT and later reactivated a mothballed power plant. reuters.com