{"id":176249,"date":"2017-04-17T01:35:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=176249"},"modified":"2017-04-21T13:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T08:17:03","slug":"korean-crisis-is-aggravating-where-is-the-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/korean-crisis-is-aggravating-where-is-the-un\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean Crisis Is Aggravating; Where Is The UN? \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Laksiri Fernando<\/a> –<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Laksiri Fernando<\/p><\/div>\n

What I mean by the UN in the title is particularly the UN Secretary General (SG). Where is he? What is he doing? What is his name? I am asking the last question because compared to the previous SGs, this person is conspicuously absent from his duties. A very few in the world would even know his name (Ant\u00f3nio Guterres). He can be a good man and an innocent one, but that is not sufficient for the position.<\/p>\n

We should also add the UN Commissioner of Human Rights to the UN list, particularly because this Prince (Zeid Al Hussein) was unnecessarily commenting on Donald Trump\u2019s \u2018unsuitability to the presidency\u2019 during the American elections, but silent thereafter after Trump came to power. What a shame! <\/span><\/p>\n

The evolving situation in the world today, in the Middle East and in the Korean Peninsula, has a direct relevance to human rights, more than anything else. If a conflict flares up, particularly in the Korean peninsula, possibly millions of people would die and become displaced. Even otherwise, from a human rights point of view, what is already happening in the Middle East, right down to the borders of the South Asian region in Afghanistan, is horrendous. The latest (15 April) is the dreadful suicide bombing in the al-Rashideen area, obviously by Islamist extremists, near Aleppo where over hundred have been killed, mostly women and children.\"\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ant\u00f3nio Guterres<\/em><\/p>\n

UN Responsibility\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

What are the purposes of the UN? Those are in brief, according to the Charter: (1) \u201c<\/span>To maintain international peace and security.\u201d (2) \u201cTo develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples.\u201d (3) \u201cTo achieve international co-operation in solving international problems.\u201d (3) \u201cTo be a Centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in the attainment of these common ends.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

I am not imagining or inventing. I am quoting from the four paragraphs of Article 1 of the UN Charter. We do have a serious situation, as particularly the US and North Korea are threatening each other, and therefore, \u2018peace and security\u2019 in the region and beyond are under threat. Whatever the odds, the UN and the \u2018international community\u2019 (whatever the latter means), should try to \u2018develop friendly relations between the countries involved in present hostilities. The UN should promote \u2018international co-operation\u2019 in solving these problems within and beyond the region. Otherwise, there is no point in calling it (the UN) \u2018a Centre of harmonizing actions of the nations,\u2019 as the Purposes of the Charter declares. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As China\u2019s Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, stated day before yesterday (Nine News, Australia, 14 April), \u201ca conflict over North Korea could break out at any moment.\u201d He also added that \u201cthere will be no winners and only losers\u201d which is absolutely true in this type of a war and particularly under the given conditions. In my last article (\u201cChemical Attacks in Syria and America\u2019s Continued Military Campaign\u201d), I pointed out that China should call an immediate session of the Security Council to possibly avert an emerging disaster. In this article, my focus is on the responsibilities of the Secretary General, not only in calling but also trying to avert such a disaster in all possible ways.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Under the existing rules of procedure, formally a meeting of the Security Council is called by its President. It can be on a request from a member or on his\/her initiative. Under similar arrangements, the Presidency is rotated and this month (April) ironically the Presidency is with the United States of America! The current US representative to the UN is Nikki Haley, who in fact stated at the last meeting that \u2018there should be a regime change in Syria.\u2019 This is against the UN Charter and its principles. Under such circumstances, the SG has a special responsibility to call the Security Council and to take an active part in resolving the current imbroglio. <\/span>Article 99 specifically says, \u201c<\/span>The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security<\/i>.\u201d The UN Secretary General\u2019s role should be proactive and independent. <\/span><\/p>\n

North Korea <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

There is no question that North Korea is a tricky country. That is the only remaining old type communist country. It is possible to call other names; a \u2018failed state\u2019 or even a \u2018rouge state,\u2019 but that would not help to understand and change the situation. Of course, one can go beyond like Donald Trump, and call the Kim Jong-un as \u2018evil,\u2019 \u2018butcher\u2019 or \u2018animal.\u2019 That does not help either.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

When two prominent scholars from South Korea, Jung Tae-hern and Han Jong-woo, edited the \u201cUnderstanding North Korea: Indigenous Perspectives<\/i>\u201d (Lexington Books, 2014), containing contributions of sixteen South Korean scholars, they pertinently asked the following question. \u201cWhy have the two sides, members of the same people, diverged so drastically and become so hostile toward each other?\u201d Addressing particularly the American readers, the question was explained further in the following manner. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican readers might find it surprisingly ironic that the people of such disreputable country have shared, throughout nearly 5,000 years of its history, the same language, the blood line, and an identical culture with the people of South Korea, the very nation of the \u2018Miracle on the Han River\u2019 and an \u2018important axis in the value-sharing US-ROK [South Korea] alliance<\/i>.\u201d \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I am quoting from the first page itself. I am not sure whether Donald Trump ever reads books! But this is good for others and particularly for the Oxford graduate, Theresa May, or even Malcolm Turnbull, the two Prime Ministers (UK and Australia) whose support that Trump might be banking on in attacking North Korea. Do I consider America as the aggressor in this instance? Yes, I do. Otherwise, there was no point in Trump sending a highly sophisticated (nuclear powered) large battle carrier to the Korean Peninsula. This was before any provocation or belligerence from Pyongyang. North Korea\u2019s nuclear ambitions, in defiance of the UN sanctions, should have been handled by the UN itself, and not by the US. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, there is no question that a nuclear armed North Korea can be a threat to the stability in the region in the medium to long term. That is why the UN (the SG, the Secretariat and experts) should intervene without any bias to any side. The current situation can be harmful to North Korea itself. North Korea is not that sophisticated in its armaments, although the military\/political determination is high, as evident by this year\u2019s \u2018Day of the Sun\u2019 or Kim Il-Sung\u2019s birthday celebrations. Immediately after the main event in Pyongyang, there had been a missile test (not so successful it seems) in Sinpo. The demonstration of ballistic missiles and speeches at the celebrations also were provocative. What is going on from both sides is a kind of tit-for-tat without any sense. <\/span><\/p>\n

It is this author\u2019s view that most of the conflicts in this world are largely (not totally) based on \u2018imagined fears,\u2019 \u2018perceived threats\u2019 and \u2018unnecessary antagonisms.\u2019 Some of them are also fabricated for vested interests of the involved parties and\/or of outsiders. <\/span><\/p>\n

China\u2019s Responsibility? <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

How much China could do to appease the situation is controversial. There are efforts to pass the buck to China and even using coercion to do the bidding. It is true that China and North Korea were at the same wavelength aftermath of the revolutions\/civil wars as communist countries. However, since 1978, under Deng Xiaoping first, China has been going in a different direction. Chinese and Koreans are different peoples. It would have been good, if China did better to influence North Korea. However, the circumstances were different. <\/span><\/p>\n

China could influence North Korea economically, but not so much in politics. This is a well- balanced view of several experts. It is not correct to consider North Korea as a client state of China, based on their own perceptions or experiences by the Western countries. Kim Jong-un has never travelled to Beijing and there had been no summits between the two country leaders. One may say, it was a mistake on the part of China to be somewhat aloof, but that has been the case. If there is any influence to be done that must be a common effort through the UN. Given that premise, China might be able to play a pivotal role, but not under coercion. Economic sanctions are not a panacea as many Western advocates advocate in this case as well as other instances. They heart, not the regime\/s but primarily the people. <\/span><\/p>\n

The recent developments in North Korea have been contradictory, not in its bad sense but in a positive meaning. North Korea has been changing economically although slowly. Sebastian Berger has been one who was reporting the situation to the world on this count recently (\u201cNorth Korea Reforming Economy while Denying Change,\u201d France 24, 12 April). There is no question that her nuclear tests pose threats to the region and understandably countries like Australia are also nervous. However, war against North Korea is not the solution. <\/span><\/p>\n

After President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to US, Donald Trump made several Tweets in this regard and one I have found was the following dated 13 April.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have great confidence that China will properly deal with North Korea. If they are unable to do so, the U.S., with its allies, will!<\/i> U.S.A.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

This is a dangerous statement in the name of USA, allowing a blame game aiming at China. What does it mean when it says, \u2018properly deal\u2019 in the first sentence? It could mean war, which is clear from the second sentence: \u201cIf they are unable to do so, the US, with its allies, will [do].\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

For Lasting Peace\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

The Korean question is a much more complicated issue than the claimed \u2018rogue state\u2019 in Pyongyang, both politically and \u2018technically.\u2019 We can see that, if there is a proper Security Council discussion on the matter, without mere political posturing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Analyzing \u201cNortheast Asia\u2019s Security Dilemma: Korea at the Centre,\u201d Leonid Petrov wrote to the Annual Security Outlook of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP) in 2015, that \u201cStable peace and security in Northeast Asia cannot be achieved without ending the Korean War.\u201d Why did he say \u2018Korean War? Because, technically (or politically) speaking, there was only an armistice agreement or truce in 1953, and not a proper settlement or a peace agreement. The UN has been sleeping all these years, without resolving the situation. <\/span><\/p>\n

Leonid Petrov, a Korea expert, is attached to the Australian National University (ANU) and to my knowledge holds the same view\/s, highlighting its present complications to the media regularly in Australia. As he further said (in 2015), <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the first days of their separation after World War II, both North and South Korea have lived in a constant fear of invasion mixed with the constant desire to pre-empt this invasion by attacking first and unifying the country. The unfinished nature of the Korean War left both Pyongyang and Seoul frustrated and paranoid about each other\u2019s intentions, effectively precluding any improvement in bilateral relations to the present day<\/i>.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is the situation that the UN should resolve, without allowing its big members to bully other countries, jeopardizing their own people\u2019s security through jingoism and warmongering. The \u2018unfinished nature of the Korean war\u2019 should be resolved and \u2018finished\u2019 through a proper and a lasting peace.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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