The Trump Administration’s determination to enforce UN sanctions on
North Korea with a level of strictness bordering on spitefulness is once
again running afoul of a UN agency trying to do something relatively
routine.
In this case, the UN International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
had met with North Korea to discuss reopening their airspace to civilian
airline traffic. Doing so would require a safety audit, but would make sense since North Korea is no longer conducting large amounts of unannounced missile tests that would threaten such planes.
So ICAO started planning the audit, and then the US showed up to object
to the idea, arguing that the technology involved in auditing airspace
safety could have military uses, and therefore North Korea couldn’t be
allowed to have that.
ICAO tried to downplay the matter, saying there is often “negotiation
and advance consultation” before they start an audit. As with connecting
a road between North and South Korea, however, the US seems to just
openly object to anything that might seem to benefit North Korea as
necessarily in violation of their interpretation of the sanctions.
No wonder we have no time ir energy to do anything useful, constructive or productive. Too busy watching the workd and thousands of sanctions. Ni bureaucrat wiuld dare interpret anything other then the mist absurdly negative, otherwise risking one’s job.
No wonder others are miving ahead in scuence and technoligy, while our top five tech giants monopolised everything — from sending packages, to running CIA, from controling Tv and print nedia, to social networking, from defence contracts to music, from govefnment remote data storage to space vehicles. Name it — they control it. They do not innovate , they buy early start-ups to shelf fhem, they create fake competition with each other, and make money, They offer satelite launches to private sector for cheap, and then chargevPentagon tripple the price.
Russian defence technoligy and Chinese telecom and AI are dye opener, a new Sputnik moment. Is this why suddenly there us a talk of breaking them up?