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North Korea Wins Leading Role at World Health Organisation

by Toby Young
1 June 2023 1:00 PM

At the annual gathering of WHO member states, which ended on May 30th, Kim Jong Un’s North Korea won a seat on the WHO Executive Board. UN Watch has more.

“What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care. It is an absurd episode for a key U.N. agency that is in much need of self-reflection and reform,” said Hillel Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, an independent non-governmental human rights group in Geneva.

“A seat on the Executive Board provides North Korea with a vote on the appointment of the WHO’s six regional directors, and potentially on an eventual replacement for Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director General now serving his second and final term.”

North Korea was elected in a slate with the other nominees by a secret ballot: 123 nations voting yes, 13 abstentions and 6 spoiled ballots; 35 countries were absent. Normally the elections are by consensus, but Russia challenged Ukraine’s nomination, and so a vote was held.

“The right signal from the U.N. to the North Korean regime would be an overdue referral to the International Criminal Court, and a call to investigate and prosecute Kim Jon Un’s heinous crimes against humanity – not an election to an organisation that sets the standards for global health,” said Neuer.

Worth reading in full.

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TheBasicMind
TheBasicMind
1 year ago

This could be a blessing in disguise. With the pandemic treaty currently supported by the government, perhaps this will give the cause to think again.

I’m hopeful but I won’t hold my breath.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

Really the government has a kindred spirit on the WHO.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  TheBasicMind

On the contrary. This explains why all references to Human Rights have been removed from the Treaty.

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago

At which point, every ‘free’ country should withdraw from the organisation.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago
Reply to  DomH75

Name a free Country.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

Fair point, but Dom did use inverted commas.

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Exactamundo! It’s a challenge as much as anything. Any old-school country claiming to be free would pull the plug! Rishi should have made an announcement immediately. 😉

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DomH75
DomH75
1 year ago
Reply to  JXB

Whoosh! Those inverted commas raced over your head! 😀

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Seriously? A country who’s population is riddled with dysentery, malnutrition and worms?
The very essence of good health???

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

You’re starting to sound a bit unwell, comrade – better keep your eye on that social credit score, and check in for a bit of talking therapy when you get the chance (or hear your intercom buzz in a couple of minutes).

Besides, nothing like an invigorating bit of hunger to gee a man or womanx up to a good day’s work – those CCTV cameras aren’t going to monitor themselves!

Malnutrition you say? Worms are just chock full of protein – just ask our friends Klaus and Bill.

Dysentery? Nothing 15 minute cities won’t cure, now our best scientists from the Guardian have conclusively linked all disease with climate change.

Last edited 1 year ago by jburns75
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Mogwai
Mogwai
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

Not the pig dictator though. Who ate all the pies? While the citizens starve. The moon-faced, weeblesque tyrant who is the same height lying down! 😤

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
1 year ago
Reply to  Mogwai

That comment is an insult to Weebles! 😉

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“The right signal from the U.N. to the North Korean regime would be an overdue referral to the International Criminal Court,”

International lunatic asylum! The WHO and UN that is!
For God’s sake Teddy, f off!

Last edited 1 year ago by Dinger64
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Jabba the Hut
Jabba the Hut
1 year ago

Probably elected to help give tips on totalitarianism.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Jabba the Hut

Hilarious.

An unelected dictator at home but part of a “democracy” on the international scene.

You couldn’t make this up.

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JXB
JXB
1 year ago

Proving that the difference between ‘democratic’ government and despotic government is vanishingly small.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Is it the equivalent of April Fool’s Day?

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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

It’s almost as if we’re being trolled by globalists.

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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago

At the least, this is a sign of yet another organisation that has gone collectively insane inside a progressive echo chamber, and shouldn’t be trusted to make a cup of tea.

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Amari
Amari
1 year ago
Reply to  jburns75

Not insane. Evil.

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James Richardson
James Richardson
1 year ago

I would’ve thought that Kim Jong Un had more sense.

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Stupid article. North Korea is a regular member of the UN. It isn’t event considered to be a enemy/ hostile state which can be legitimately militarily invaded on grounds of disagreeable domestic policies. That would be Germany and Japan. Ergo: North Korea has the same rights as any other non-enemy UN member state.

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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

I didn’t see anything in the article claiming North Korea has no technical right to sit on the WHO executive board (comprising 34 of the UN’s 193 member states if I’m correct). The article quotes Hillel Neuer, calling it “an absurd episode for a key UN agency”, which is probably an understatement.

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  jburns75

That’s an absurd statement. North Korea doesn’t have a technical right to sit on the WHO executive board but – as regular UN member – a right to field candidates for it. That’s the UN working as it’s supposed to and if someone really believes it shouldn’t work in this way, then, the UN treaties must be changed accordingly. Until this has happened, North Korea is not a special case.

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DickieA
DickieA
1 year ago

“What this means is that one of the world’s most horrific regimes is now a part of a group that sets and enforces the standards and norms for the global governance of health care.  includes North Korea.

I think that’s fixed it.

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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago

This could be good news.
No-one can accuse North Korea of being in on the WEF Great Reset and all the other nefarious organisations hell bent on controlling all of humankind in the image of the US and it’s vassals.

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jburns75
jburns75
1 year ago
Reply to  GlassHalfFull

The Chinese Communist Party have tendrils deep inside the West’s supranational organisations and elite boy’s clubs. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is nothing more than a vassal state for China and couldn’t continue without their support – acting as a container for a tyrannised population potentially desperate to flood their borders; providing a source of slave labour and acting as a geopolitical buffer zone. The DPRK might not be directly in on it, but they are part of the structure, and possibly a glimpse into where we could be in a few decades time.

Last edited 1 year ago by jburns75
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GlassHalfFull
GlassHalfFull
1 year ago
Reply to  jburns75

Some people use the example of the “pandemic” to suggest that China and Russia are fully onboard with the Technocratic New World Order.
However, Chinese and Iranian officials have accused the US of releasing SARS-CoV-2 in China and Iran as a bioweapon.
Also, Russia has raised concerns at the number of US funded biolabs in Ukraine which may target particular individuals or Slavic people.
The actions by Iran, China and Russia to control their citizens by technology maybe a result of them wanting to monitor their citizens and the activities of foreign influence within their countries to stop fifth column infiltration by the US and other Western foreign powers particularly if they believe the West used the virus as a bioweapon against them.
Also, both China and Russia compete in the capitalist system and they both had non mRNA “vaccines” to sell on the world stage.
This doesn’t mean China, Russia and the US are all involved with each other in some shadowy conspiracy controlled by a tiny Global Elite.
With North Korea admitting to defeating Covid it would mean they are also being controlled by this shadowy Global Elite which is just plain ridiculous.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

The reasoning behind this as usual is – $$$$$$$.

Billy has identified a new and massive, untapped market.

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ebygum
ebygum
1 year ago

According to the article 123 countries out of 194 voted FOR….not just the ‘usual suspects’ they would have you believe….
I can’t imagine why….but the WHO is so wholly corrupt anyway, what difference will this really make?

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  ebygum

I think the importance of this announcement is that it is a very public way for the WHO to really proclaim its direction of travel.

North Korea is part of the international community once again so Kim Jong Un is now besties with the likes of Sleepy Joe, Turdeau, Fishy, the Micron and all the rest.

I wouldn’t bet against an audience with Chuckles in the near future, after all we are all one big, happy family now. Aren’t we?

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Gates must be delighted at having the world’s second most famous Dictator, after Xi, on board.

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Jabby Mcstiff
Jabby Mcstiff
1 year ago

You can’t argue with those haircuts. Rationality doesn’t stand a chance. If an erstwhile country behaves in a crazy way it is because they need to in their minds. That moment in the 1950s when American hegemony set forth to conquer everything. They conquered a lot but just like the 1950s cars in Cuba they didn’t win entirely. Believe me if you believe that full spectrum dominance of the Anglo-Americans is going to continue forever you are sorely mistaken.It didn’t have to turn out this way.

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NeilParkin
NeilParkin
1 year ago

Well, what harm could it do.?

/Sarcasm…

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7941MHKB
7941MHKB
1 year ago

How nice that our very own Jeremy Farrar and Susan Michie will have a new friend (perhaps old friend?) whilst saving humanity in their new obscenely well paid, tax free, diplomatic immunity jobs with the saintly WHO.

Surely Matt Handycock and Professor Pantsdown Ferguson will be joining them very soon?

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago

Now this, THIS, really is Clown World.

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djmwright
djmwright
1 year ago

The problem is the UN itself rather than the election of one country or another onto panels.

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Amari
Amari
1 year ago

Did I read that right? You mean 123 nations voted yes to North Korea? What the…?

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Kornea112
Kornea112
1 year ago

The WHO is always desperate for cash flow. Many of these agencies, like the UN, take bribe money from countries for votes and appointments to important roles. Countries do it to raise their stature and hopefully have some influence against the big players. A few years ago Trudeau visited a handful of countries doling out cash bribes to get votes for Canada to join security council. Corruption at the highest levels or nothing to see here depending on your slant.

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