Members of the UN Security Council wanted to hold a discussion today on North Korea’s human rights abuses. Yesterday Kim Jong-un called Trump a “heedless and erratic old man.” Evidently Trump can’t take a hint.
The meeting on North Korea was to coincide with Human Rights Day, held every Dec. 10 to celebrate the day in 1948 when the General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Eight Security Council members signed the letter to schedule the meeting, but they needed a ninth to make it official.
The U.S., which would have been the ninth member, wouldn’t sign the letter. It is pretty obvious from the pardoning of war criminals to putting kids in cages to supporting dictators that the U.S. is no longer concerned with human rights.
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