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WASHINGTON The Trump administration has refused to support a move by members of the United Nations Security Council to hold a discussion Tuesday on North Koreas rampant human rights abuses, effectively blocking the meeting for the second year in a row.
The American action appeared aimed at muting international criticism of Pyongyangs human rights record in the hope of preserving a tenuous diplomatic opening between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, the authoritarian leader of North Korea. Tensions between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim have broken out into the open in recent days.
On Monday, North Korea called Mr. Trump a heedless and erratic old man after the American president warned that Mr. Kim could lose everything if he resumed military provocations like nuclear or long-range missile tests before the 2020 elections in the United States.
A proposed meeting of the Security Council on Tuesday had been intended to put a spotlight on North Korea on Human Rights Day , which is held every Dec. 10 to mark the day in 1948 when the General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eight of the councils 15 members had signed a letter to schedule the meeting but needed a ninth member the minimum required.
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ck4829
(35,039 posts)gademocrat7
(10,645 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,155 posts)Am I right?
eShirl
(18,480 posts)Boomerproud
(7,943 posts)The trumpers should have to answer for their support of this fascist.
spanone
(135,795 posts)fuck him
duforsure
(11,885 posts)He's defending corrupt brutal dictators instead of standing up against them. He's saying to them it's ok to brutalize their own people. Trump would do that here if given the chance.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,966 posts)I don't think it is going to happen, but tRump intervened here rather than just let it happen.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)of her knock-off "fashions" produced in N.K.? Any Trademarks there for daughter/wife?
gab13by13
(21,264 posts)Don't be shooting off any long range missiles until after the 2020 elections. I guess that gives Kim the green light to shoot off long range missiles after the election.
Botany
(70,449 posts)Trying to gain favor with a brutal thug like Kim by stopping any kind of look into his
tortures, killings, and slave prisons is there no bottom?
Putin, Kim Jung Un, Saudi's Crown Prince MBS, and Turkey's Erdogan all brutal killers
and Trump wants to be buddies w/them?
keithbvadu2
(36,678 posts)Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)on the planet. All the time, even when they're publicly mocking and defying him.
mgardener
(1,812 posts)That the man who separates families, locks children in cages is supporting Kim?
He's pardoned 2 men who have committed despicable unethical and unnecessary war atrocities. Allowed Kurds to be slaughtered and a US journalist
Tried to bribe Ukraine in the war against Russia.
He needs a pal to defend him.
Since when does the US and POTUS pal around with terrorists???
Since when have we sunk so low???