4 May 2010

The Wall Street Journal rips into W.H.O. Director-General and useful idiot Margaret Chan. The fact of Ms. Chan’s origins in Hong Kong raise the obvious suspicion that she’d never have gotten her current job without the backing of the China’s oligarchy in Beijing. And given the vast gulf between China’s views on health and human rights and ours, this is a good illustration of why the United Nations will never be united by a common purpose or outlook. Instead, some future administration ought to give new thought to gradually supplanting the the U.N. with a global league of democratic governments.

Hmmm: Mysterious aluminum fragments found amid Cheonan wreckage. The government says it’s premature to conclude they’re torpedo fragments.

President Bush removed North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, yada yada …

Israeli President Shimon Peres is accusing North Korea of smuggling missiles to Iran. Peres says North Korea has become a “duty free for long-range missiles and nuclear weapons.” He says some of the weaponry flows to Iran and from there to militants in Lebanon and Syria, though he provided no proof.

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Is North Korea preparing to launch a medium-range missile? If so, I hope they launch it from their west coast.