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TEWSPilot
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 Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:59 am Post subject: Officials: US tracking suspicious ship from NKorea |
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| Quote: | Officials: US tracking suspicious ship from NKorea
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Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen did not specifically confirm that the U.S. was monitoring the ship when he was asked about it at a Pentagon news conference Thursday.
"We intend to vigorously enforce the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 to include options, to include, certainly, hail and query," Mullen said. "If a vessel like this is queried and doesn't allow a permissive search," he noted, it can be directed into port.
The Security Council resolution calls on all 192 U.N. member states to inspect vessels on the high seas "if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo" contains banned weapons or material to make them, and if approval is given by the country whose flag the ship sails under.
If the country refuses to give approval, it must direct the vessel "to an appropriate and convenient port for the required inspection by the local authorities."
The resolution does not authorize the use of force. But if a country refuses to order a vessel to a port for inspection, it would be in violation of the resolution and the country licensing the vessel would face possible sanctions by the Security Council.
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...so if the Captain of the North Korean ship tells us to "GO TO HAIL AND QUERY THE DEVIL", we do exactly WHAT?
Admin note: Changed title of thread to reflect original article title. Please use the articles original title when posting, thanks. Lew |
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Me#1You#10
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| Call John Kerry? |
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dusty
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I think the whole world is going to get to watch 'nothing happen'.
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TEWSPilot
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Rick, I'm SHOCKED! SHOCKED! You mean the Gargoyl from North Korea is intentionally provoking the "World Community" knowing that it is against U.N. policy to proliferate NUCLEAR WEAPONS? The Obaminator has been "very vocal" in condemning Nuclear Weapons and has even promised to destroy all of ours....strong letter to follow....don-cha-know.
...hey, this is "Change Obama can believe in"... if it got any better than this, he'd have to smoke a cigarette afterwards..... |
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