The Marmot’s Hole

9 Comments

1. littlebrownasian
   Posted December 19, 2007 at 9:30 pm | Permalink

   Kim Jong Il: Hans Brix? Oh no! Oh, herro. Great to see you again, Hans!
   Hans Blix: Mr. Il, I was supposed to be allowed to inspect your palace today, but your guards won’t let me enter certain areas.
   Kim Jong Il: Hans, Hans, Hans! We’ve been frew this a dozen times. I don’t have any weapons of mass destwuction, OK Hans?
   Hans Blix: Then let me look around, so I can ease the UN’s collective mind. I’m sorry, but the UN must be firm with you. Let me in, or else.
   Kim Jong Il: Or else what?
   Hans Blix: Or else we will be very angry with you… and we will write you a letter, telling you how angry we are.

2. Wedge
   Posted December 19, 2007 at 9:57 pm | Permalink

   #1: You beat me to it. I swear I was just googling this dialog.

3. littlebrownasian
   Posted December 19, 2007 at 10:07 pm | Permalink

   #2,

   Well, it’s’ about time you showed up! First thing that came to my mind was two things:

   1. That dialog, and
   2. Your avatar

   Now if anybody can post that dialog about them dicks, pussies and assholes…

4. Linkd
   Posted December 19, 2007 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

   Kinda weird, isn’t it? The article mentions the usual suspects who opposed it, but there were 22 oppositions and 59 abstentions overall, totalling 81 countries who refused to condemn NK human rights violations, against 101 who did. Rather shitty ratio.

   Does NK really have that much biz going on with 82 of the world’s worst nations? Or is it just that many countries refuse to support anything the West proposes, no matter how sensible?

5. mavsman15
   Posted December 20, 2007 at 12:27 am | Permalink

   well cant Hans go on a NK sponsored vacation and visit a North Korean mountain and then tell the UN that “I know nothing” and that I did not see any weapons?

6. Baek du boy
   Posted December 20, 2007 at 11:30 am | Permalink

   I wonder if South Korea voted or abstained…I guess the latter.

7. Zonath
   Posted December 20, 2007 at 12:54 pm | Permalink

   #6

   ROK abstained, according to the official recorded vote. Here’s the record, just in case anyone wants to look over what countries join the ROK on the list of shame:

   http://www.un.org/News/Press/d.....78.doc.htm

   Look down near the bottom, under the heading ‘Annex XVI’ for the voting roll.

8. littlebrownasian
   Posted December 20, 2007 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

   Heh, that’s ironic. Just above that (Annex XV), ROK is in agreement with “promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms and in solving international problems of a humanitarian character”.

9. Zonath
   Posted December 20, 2007 at 1:15 pm | Permalink

   #8

   Yep. I was personally kind of surprised that the US was the only country that opposed the rights of the child as well as the right to food… The UN General Assembly is a strange strange place.