Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The UN Security Council has tightened the economic sanctions noose on North Korea in response to the Pyongyang regime’s nuclear and ballistic missile proliferation. The fifteen member Council voted unanimously to slam a wide range of economic, scientific and trade bans on the reclusive communist […]
By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS, September 19, 2011 — Amid the arrival of presidents, prime ministers and kings, the 66th annual session of the UN General Assembly debate will open in New York, Sept. 21. But the session hardly starts in a celebratory mood as much as a reflection and reappraisal of a series […]