N. Korea, Japan in name-calling row at United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Nov 05, 2003
A general debate at the United Nations turned into a name-calling row when a representative of North Korea referred to the Japanese as "Japs."
UN General Assembly president Julian Hunte pleaded with speakers to mind their language after deputy UN ambassador Kim Chang Guk let the epithet fly in a discussion Tuesday of the annual report of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency.
The ambassador said he rejected pressure from the "Japs" over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
He said he used the term because a Japanese diplomat the day before had referred to his country as North Korea rather than its official title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The ourburst came in a discussion on the report by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei.
In introducing the report Monday, ElBaradei said North Korea's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty posed a "serious and immediate challenge" to the international effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
North Korea was the lone vote in the General Assembly against the report, which was approved 129-1.
http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031105154318.3vshtods.html
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Nov 05, 2003
A general debate at the United Nations turned into a name-calling row when a representative of North Korea referred to the Japanese as "Japs."
UN General Assembly president Julian Hunte pleaded with speakers to mind their language after deputy UN ambassador Kim Chang Guk let the epithet fly in a discussion Tuesday of the annual report of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency.
The ambassador said he rejected pressure from the "Japs" over Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
He said he used the term because a Japanese diplomat the day before had referred to his country as North Korea rather than its official title, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
The ourburst came in a discussion on the report by the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei.
In introducing the report Monday, ElBaradei said North Korea's withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty posed a "serious and immediate challenge" to the international effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
North Korea was the lone vote in the General Assembly against the report, which was approved 129-1.
http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031105154318.3vshtods.html
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