Unmasking the UN

"On Dec. 22, 2011, the U.N. General Assembly held a moment of ‎silence in honor of deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, a ‎leading violator of human rights, promoter of narcoterrorism, ‎manufacturer of chemical weapons of mass destruction, who ‎threatened the globe with a nuclear option. ‎

This episode highlighted the accurate meaning of 'UN' as defined in ‎dictionaries: a negative prefix, expressing absence, lack, deficiency ‎and adversity.‎

UNdemocratic. According to the 2017 Freedom House report, 'Of the 195 ‎U.N. member states assessed, 87 (45%) were rated Free.'

‎ UNscrupulous and UNspeakable. The 2017 ‎membership of the U.N. Human Rights Council -- elected with a mandate ‎‎'to uphold the highest standards in the promotion and protection of ‎human rights' -- includes systematic, grave violators of human rights ‎such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, ‎Cuba, Burundi, Eritrea, Bangladesh and China.‎

UNsavory and UNwilling to defy rogue regimes. On May 19, ‎‎2017, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley criticized the World Intellectual Property Organization, a Geneva-‎based U.N. agency, for ‎facilitating an international patent application requested by North Korea ‎for the production of chemical sodium cyanide, used in making nerve ‎gas: 'The thought of placing cyanide in the hands of the North Koreans, ‎considering their record on human rights, political prisoners and ‎assassinations, is not only dangerous but defies common sense.'...

UNwarranted. Should the U.N. sustain its UNaccomplished performance, ‎which has added fuel to spreading global fires, it will follow in the ‎footsteps of the League of Nations, fading into irrelevance.‎" ‎