Saturday, June 13, 2009

Was wondering - reading about China and Russia paying lip service to sanctions against North Korea - ships leaving NK can be stopped and inspected but not by force; any ship refusing voluntary inspection must return to a port of its choosing for inspection but still without use of force - these conditions, which essentially render sanctions meaningless, demanded by Russia and China [the UN truly is a farce, isn't it?] - I was wondering, especially since now NK is swearing to go on a bomb making spree, I was wondering what happens if a bomb, dirty or otherwise, sourced in NK and therefore ultimately enabled by China and Russia, finds it's way into the wrong hands and is detonated in the US or Israel or the UK? Since Russia and China in a very real way would bear some responsibility for that 'attack', I wonder what the consequences would be? Just curious.

update: in reading today re sanctions no mention of 'port of own choosing' codicil - yet I'm pretty sure that's the case - the 'no violence' clause definitely in - so either I'm wrong or for some reason not being reported.

[used this as opportunity to test Google against Bing - only Google came through for me, although Bing does look to have potential - anyway, from what I can tell a ship that refuses inspection on high seas the 'flag country' of the ship can have the 'enforced' inspection done at a port of its choosing - so not understanding why this obviously important condition is not being reported]