UN website gives Korea the gas face over Dokdo?

So, does this mean the UN doesn’t recognize Korean sovereignty over Dokdo? [Kukmin Ilbo, Korean]

14 Comments

  1. dogbertt your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 3:34 pm | Permalink

    Ban must be asleep at the wheel.

    Mr. Gen. Secretary, I know you’re reading this — hurry, there’s no time to waste!!

  2. michael your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 3:38 pm | Permalink

    You would think with all the money Korea spent to put Ban in office they would get the Dokdo thing right….

  3. Posted June 5, 2007 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    Ah yes, some nice red meat to get the netizens going.

  4. snow your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 6:00 pm | Permalink

    Oh, oh, Ban and the Vankers are asleep at the switch. Red alert!

  5. Posted June 5, 2007 at 8:02 pm | Permalink

    Maybe it’s a good way to focus their energy away from anti-U.S. antics…

  6. Seth Gecko your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 11:04 pm | Permalink

    This looks like a job for… Bee-Man!

  7. seouldout your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 11:04 pm | Permalink

    If you’re looking for the specific document cited by the kooky news it’s this one. (It’s a PDF doc.)

    To add further insult the sea east of North Korea is the Sea of Japan, without the (East Sea) concession to VANK.

  8. JK your flag
    Posted June 5, 2007 at 11:59 pm | Permalink

    “Maybe it’s a good way to focus their energy away from anti-U.S. antics…”

    You talking the UN? If so, let me say that there’s a big difference between being anti-US and being critical of the Bush administration because otherwise, most of America would be considered “anti-US.”

  9. Gillian your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 6:58 am | Permalink

    seouldout, that link doesn’t seem to work………

  10. seouldout your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 7:23 am | Permalink

    @ gillain, here you go, http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartog.....eoname.pdf

  11. otoritakeo your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 9:27 am | Permalink

    Well, Japan is the second highest donor to the United Nations… it’s no wonder the UN is leaning towards the “Japanese side”. It takes out the “united” in the “United Nations” doesn’t it?

    And looking at what the UN is doing now, it’s easy to say that the UN is an ineffective organisaion. Look at UN’s obvious bias against the Israelis, their attitude towards the genocide at Sudan, Zimbabwe and Mugabe’s regime of terror, etc.

  12. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 10:38 am | Permalink

    “Ban must be asleep at the wheel.”

    It seems to me he’s doing a good job with is audit of the UN’s North Korean program.

    http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....7128.shtml

  13. globalvillageidiot your flag
    Posted June 6, 2007 at 1:14 pm | Permalink

    “Ban must be asleep at the wheel.”

    Actually, by not getting involved in a territorial dispute involving his own country - if this document is even remotely an indication of this - he’s doing exactly what a Secretary General of the UN should be doing.

    “And looking at what the UN is doing now, it’s easy to say that the UN is an ineffective organisaion.”

    Yes, it is an imperfect organization; however, would people complaining about an education system be in favor closing all schools? If there are health care problems should we shut down all the hospitals? Plow them over?

    Improve it, sure, but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water.

  14. Posted June 7, 2007 at 10:40 am | Permalink

    That analogy is incomplete. To compare a school to the UN, the school would be making children dumber, as well as having several kids die per day.

    A hospital would also have to be actively killing patients and/or not making much of a fuss when the insanity ward breaks out and starts stabbing the people next door.

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*