Emergency UN Security Council meeting on Korean tension expected

[IScreamSundays]

Source: Montreal Gazzette

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council will probably convene an emergency session on Saturday on the escalating tension between North and South Korea, council diplomats said.

"We will very likely have a meeting this afternoon," a diplomat told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Diplomats said the meeting was tentatively scheduled for 3 p.m., although it could change.

The meeting was called at the request of Russia, an envoy said. It was unclear what the 15-member council planned to do. Diplomats said they hoped to issue some kind of statement to help ease the tension in the region.

Bad weather on Saturday appeared likely to delay a live-fire drill by South Korean marines that has drawn North Korean threats of another military attack.



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[redirish28]

1. This isn't good news. I will keep my fingers crossed.

[Poll_Blind]

2. With all the other stuff going on this has sort of slipped off the national radar but the...

...situation appears to be no-less genuinely tense.

I had to actually read a number of article in the last few days to get it through my skull, because I had assumed that things had just dropped down to a sort of typical slow-boil. But it does not appear that way.

PB

[Ghost Dog]

4. "We" appear to continue to deliberately provoke

this particular dragon, yes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Our national radar is on purpose off the world stage

CNN is doing crap right now, MSNBC is in prison channel mode, and FOX... no, won't go there.

CNN is on Tiger Woods... WW III could start on Tuesday, but I will know how well it went for Tiger.

:hi:

This is on purpose.

[Faygo Kid]

3. A very bad situation; keep an eye on this one.

Bill Richardson called the situation a "tinderbox." That unfortunately sounds about right.

[Poll_Blind]

5. I guess his counterpart in South Korea made a point of telling him that he hasn't...

...been sleeping the last few nights- and wasn't kidding.

PB

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Update from BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12029875

And it is a tinderbox

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. CNN just broke from Richardson and Blitzer

Richardson may get a hot phone between both sides. It is still very fluid, but they will open the borders to recover bodies from US Casualties in the 1950s.

It sounds really, REALLY, tense.

[zigzagzed]

9. North Korea is like a child

Dealing with North Korea is like dealing with a child that is acting out because it wants your attention. If you ignore it, it throws a temper tantrum. North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is upset that President Obama is paying less attention to North Korea than did President Bush.