Sunday, July 5, 2009

U.N. credited for changing ship’s course.
The Associated Press as presented by Japan Times online.

U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead speaks during an interview in Tokyo on Saturday – and says –   that a United Nations resolution was responsible for changing the course of a North Korean ship suspected of carrying illicit weapons. {We think that giving too much credence to the UN resolution might in the end hurt the interests of the United States, Japan, and of the rest of the world as well.}

The Kang Nam 1, originally believed to be bound for Myanmar, has been shadowed for more than a week by the U.S. Navy. The North Korean freighter was the first vessel monitored under U.N. sanctions aimed at punishing the regime for conducting an underground nuclear test in May.

Adm. Gary Roughead said the ship was being closely watched and was now in the East China Sea.

Roughead said the ship’s turnaround underlined the success of the U.N. resolution.

“I believe we are seeing the effects of the U.N. Security Council resolution,” Roughead told reporters during a trip for meetings with Japanese military officials and American sailors here.

“I do believe the actions and the support that have been given to the Security Council resolution are making it very difficult for that ship,” he said.

The resolution sought to clamp down on the country’s trading of banned arms and material related to weapons by requiring U.N. member states to request inspection of ships suspected of carrying prohibited cargo.

North Korea has said it would consider any interception of its ships a declaration of war.

South Korean news channel YTN reported Friday, citing an unidentified diplomatic official, that Myanmar asked the Kang Nam to turn around.

The North, meanwhile, fired two missiles off its eastern coast Saturday, a South Korean official said.

Several short-range missiles that appeared to be Scuds were launched, a Yonhap news agency report said. North Korea fired four short-range missiles off the east coast on Thursday.

Roughead said the U.S. military was ready for North Korean missile launches. { Now, what did he mean with that?}

On above subject we posted earlier:

“A descendant of a 1628 Cartesian fly entered the White House this week to lead President Obama in his search of what to do with Leaders of Evil. The clever minds say bomb North Korean Ships that do not submit to inspection and let Iran watch this on TV.”

Posted on Sustainabilitank.info on June 19th, 2009
by Pincas Jawetz ( PJ at SustainabiliTank.com)
 http://www.sustainabilitank.info/2009/06…