Following a 15-0 vote Friday by the United Nations Security Council to tighten sanctions against it, the intransigent North Korea ups the threat to peace in the region and nuclear proliferation worldwide. Quoting the state-run North Korean news agency KCNA, CNN is reporting that North Korea is “enriching uranium and would weaponize all plutonium.”
Offering “resolute military action” against any outside threats, Pyongyang labeled the Security Council actions as a “blockade” and called any such attempt to do so “an act of war.”
In late may the U.N. was Working on A Strong Resolution with Teeth for North Korea.
UN Ambassador Susan Rice offered in the White House Press Briefing of 12 June that these “tough, new, meaningful sanctions on North Korea” are “very robust” and have “teeth that will bite.” China’s Ambassador Zhang Yesui warns against the “use of force or the threat of use of force” in enforcing the sanctions against North Korea.
If a crocodile has a “bite force” around 5000 pounds per square inch, a great white shark about 4000 psi, a hippo at 2000 psi, wolves near 1500 psi, tigers and hyaenas approximately 1000 pounds, Lions 950, a mastiff 500 psi, we humans fall at the lower end of the scale with substantially weaker jaw muscles at about 150 pounds per square inch.
What is the bite force for a “very robust” set of “teeth that will bite” if no force is used? No muscle, no bite, seems to me.
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