
<p>'North Korea  is simply not a credible chair of a<br />disarmament body. The fact that it gets a  turn chairing a United Nations<br />committee focused on disarmament is  unacceptable, given the North Korean<br />regime's efforts in the exact opposite  direction.'" Note that Libya was<br />once president of the UN's Human Rights  Commission, and only recently<br />[1]removed from its successor in interest, the  Human Rights Council.<br /><br />Discuss this story at:<br /> <a href="https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting">https://politics.slashdot.org/story/11/07/11/2247256/UN-Names-N-Korea-Chair-of-Disarmament-Committee?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email#commentlisting</a><br /><br />Links:<br /> 0. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/11/pol-baird-un-north-korea.html?ref=rss">http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/07/11/pol-baird-un-north-korea.html?ref=rss</a><br /> 1. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/01/general-assembly-suspends-libya-human-rights-council/">http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/01/general-assembly-suspends-libya-human-rights-council/</a></p>
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