North Korea's 2009 underground nuclear test is monitored by the Japanese meteorological agency. Photograph: Yuriko Nakao/ReutersChina Prevents Release Of U.N. Report On North Korea -- Global Security Newswire
China has advised other nations on the U.N. Security Council that it intends to prevent the release of a U.N. document that charges North Korea with flouting international sanctions placed on its nuclear activities, Reuters reported yesterday (see GSN, Feb. 16).
The Security Council committee that monitors implementation of U.N. sanctions on the Stalinist state received the report at the end of January from the U.N. Panel of Experts on North Korea. Western diplomats said Beijing advised it would not allow the report to be forwarded to the broader Security Council for dissemination. The decision was perplexing to some as a Chinese expert was involved in drafting the report.
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My Comment: I cannot explain why the Chinese are responding to this U.N. report in the matter that they are. Everyone already knows what is in the report, and everyone is now taking the proper measures on how to respond to such fragrant UN violations on nuclear proliferation by the North Koreans.
I can only guess that the Chinese do not want it to be made official for now, and are buying time to do what? .... that I do not know.