N Korea's ICBM launch comes amid dysfunction of U.N. over Ukraine

This is what happens when you ask a dictator to "kindly" follow the rules. You get a child who doesn't listen. That's why countries like this need a good spank from the good ol belt.

Just my opinion, I think that the 2018 summits of Moon and Kim could've made significant changes if only the US gave a bit of leeway for North Korea without compromising the pressure of the sanctions. But then again, if the dear leader's requests are too unreasonable, it's off the table. Now, on the situation with the new South Korean presidency, you can always expect Pyongyang to beat its chest when a new head of state comes in, especially a president that is leaning more on the US. On the situation with Ukraine, I think it's not coincidental that North Korea just started flying missiles at the onset of the war, I'm imagining it as a show of solidarity with comrade Putin as Russia is being ostracized and being made to sit in the corner to where Pyongyang is. On the new missile, I still can't forget the time where a North Korean missile flew over Aomori prefecture just a few years ago. We don't know the status of these missiles or if they are even operational, but we do know that the North could put anything in there and just fire them blindly against Japan.

North Korea is like that crazy fan in the last row at a rock and roll concert who’s jumping around making the most noise.

Technically there's no peace treaty between the Korea's the USA and the NATO or Russia and Japan.

Interesting to see which countries are actually taking advantage of the Ukraine crisis for their own agenda and which countries aren't.

North Korea appears to be more defensive that threatening in my opinion.

But all these sanctions by the UN might backfire.

The UN security counsel and the UN is OBSOLETE and should be shut down. It NO LONGER represents a "UNITED NATION" but the opposite, the new world order is based on military and Nuclear capabilities, and if a nation does not have these capabilities or partnering with a nuclear capable nation then it is irrelevant. This is the new reality and how the world will move forward.

@ SDCA

If you think using violence against children who don't listen to orders then you are no better than any other abusive dictatorship and hypocritical.

There's never an excuse to use violence against children during a communication dispute.

And they didn't kindly ask north Korea anyway.

ToshihiroToday  08:19 am JST

Just my opinion, I think that the 2018 summits of Moon and Kim could've made significant changes if only the US gave a bit of leeway for North Korea without compromising the pressure of the sanctions. But then again, if the dear leader's requests are too unreasonable, it's off the table. Now, on the situation with the new South Korean presidency, you can always expect Pyongyang to beat its chest when a new head of state comes in, especially a president that is leaning more on the US.

You forget, in 2018 the US was hijacked by an irresponsible dictator itself. First he lipped off about 'having the controls on his desk', then by 2018 he and Kimbo became 'lovey-dovey'. trump gave kimmy a 'Rocketman' CD and the next year there was that egotistical 'historical meet at the DMZ'. And his daughter-wife accompanied him, as always.

Now the US has a real President again but Ukraine is everyone's #1 focus and

stormcrowToday  08:35 am JST

North Korea is like that crazy fan in the last row at a rock and roll concert who’s jumping around making the most noise.

he's acting more like a crazy brat kid in a basketball game, movie theater, or rock concert who keeps chucking trash, buckets of popcorn, empty water bottles, etc. at others in the tiers below and thinking he's being cute and funny.

@ SDCA

If you think using violence against children who don't listen to orders then you are no better than any other abusive dictatorship and hypocritical.

There's never an excuse to use violence against children during a communication dispute. 

And they didn't kindly ask north Korea anyway.

Sorry that came off wrong. I didn't mean to use violence, but rather be more stern in negotiations and confront this small country that thinks they can do whatever they want. If we had the power to cripple a country as big as Russia, why don't we do the same for a country that has been repeatedly trying to make a weapon that has been banned for decades? Sure they may not seem like a threat now, but you never know when a live missile will make it's way to Japan one day along with those "tests" they keep doing.

North Korea has her rights to test her ballistic missiles, America has a large garrison and making massive military wargame each year in the peninsula close to the border! N.K. conventional weapons were very obsoleted and the nuclear ballistic missiles are the only effective deterrent !

I don’t trust google, but how many countries has NK invaded after USA invaded pre-war United Korea?

how many foreigners has NK killed? USA about…? I believe 500,000 in Iraq but it doesn’t include deaths from depleted uranium munitions.

BTW, about 18 NK abductees have died of natural causes and rest are married with children.

germany did ok after reunification, why not the Koreas?

Well...if the USA secretary hadn't stopped the peace treaty after the Korean war then we probably wouldn't be having this problem with North Korea anyway.

Iam sceptical how much longer the armistice with last

The UN dysfunction just only reflects the much more widespread dysfunction of all those countries that still own nuclear arms more than seven decades after Hiroshima and Nagasaki and haven’t even tried to condemn and abolish them. They are all completely ans similarly sick in the brain, not only such quasi dictators like Kim or Putin. There’s no significant difference in all their totally sick mindsets.

If North Korea is such a threat why are we not preparing all men of fighting age. Throwing more money to the military industrial complex is the only reflex the government has. The truth is. Even the women and children must prepare to fight if there really is a problem.

 given that Russia and China had called on the United States to relieve economic sanctions on Pyongyang on the grounds that it had suspended nuclear and long-range ballistic missile tests.

Another reason the word of Russia, China and North Korea, founding ,members of the new imperium should never be believed. But reasonable people are well aware of that. Yet the new Imperium's propagandists have used western press freedom to convince large numbers of western anti-democracy extremists to believe authoritarian rule is better than democracy.

RodneyToday  11:53 am JST

I don’t trust google, but how many countries has NK invaded after USA invaded pre-war United Korea?

how many foreigners has NK killed?

North Korea, with the help of Red Chinese troops and Soviet Pilots killed about 100,000 UN troops. Plus 245,000 South Korean civilians.

It can go 4,000 kilometers past any target in the United States. It is 5,000 kilometers short of hitting Buenos Aires. When they say it can "Hit almost anywhere on earth" what that really translates to is that it can hit anywhere Kim Jong Un would ever consider nuking, Buenos Aires is not on the list.

The missile, fired from Pyongyang International Airport, was claimed to have traveled up to a maximum altitude of 6,248.5 kilometers and a distance of 1,090 km on its 67-minute flight before hitting a target in the Sea of Japan, according to the official Korean Central News Agency.

I think someone has that wrong

The UN is past it's use by date. Having five nations with special status, permanently, is outdated and unworkable when any of the five do something bad, wrong or objectionable to the majority of nations. The special five all get to veto any statements or actions or resolutions against them in the security council, effectively allowing any of the five to get away with literal murder.

The only way to have a functioning world body is to remove powers of veto and remove special status for any member. All nations must be heard with equal status and no nation should be above collective condemnation and action through being able to shut down UN actions via veto.

With veto's gone, and special status gone (no permanent position in security council) actions and resolutions can proceed on all things when vast majority is achieved. Even actions against US or Russia or China with regards to invasions, unilateral trade actions against the greater good.

It would be a shock to the special five but they are not the center of humanity and deserve no special treatment for being militarily powerful or having nuclear weapons.

Lip service to equality is no longer acceptable. Either we are all equal or we stop pretending.

As long as the UN is a lame duck there will be alliances and groupings of like minded nations and no real ability to have a world government doing whats right for the planet and all life on it.

Time to get wise and to act wise and not just try to sound wise. It is no longer fooling the people.

Peter14:

Couldn't agree more - UN is a vast monolithic top-heavy bureaucratic institution, which is stuffed full of hugely overpaid administrators in their Ivory-tower in New York.

The reason there are no UN Peace-keeping forces on the ground helping out in Ukraine is because Russia played their veto-card, which will certainly mean heavier casualties than may have occurred.

I believe it's way past time that a new organisation should be created with the clearest possible humanitarian aims at its' heart.

I believe it's way past time that a new organisation should be created with the clearest possible humanitarian aims at its' heart.

Agree!