This is like the class bully telling the school bully to stop harassing other kids, while he himself supports the town bully terrorizing and vandalizing the streets. Singapore, the most paranoid and largest arms purchaser in SE Asia, tells North Korea to cool it down on their nuke programme? Ha ha ha.
Hasn't Sinkiepore been supporting the biggest terror nation in the world, the United States of Terrormerica, in their wars in lands of others?
K Shanmugam. Detests N Korea's nuke programme but supports Americuh's use of force and terror, including use of depleted and enriched uranium in munitions on others. Drug abuser ticking off the drug courier but supports the drug lord boss?
N. Korea faces heavy pressure at Asean forum
'Brutally frank' exchange on ending N-weapons programme: Shanmugam
North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, centre, is escorted by security guards as he leaves after a meeting at the AseanForeign Ministers' Meeting in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei on Monday, July 1, 2013. North Korea came under heavy pressure at the region's top security forum to end its nuclear weapons programme, with barbs traded on the floor, said Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam. -- FILE PHOTO: APNORTH Korea came under heavy pressure at the region's top security forum to end its nuclear weapons programme, with barbs traded on the floor, said Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam.
Describing the exchange yesterday as "very direct and brutally frank", he said later: "North Korea came under heavy pressure. The language that was used by some of the countries was language that's usually not heard in such a forum."
While some countries were more muted in their stance, others slammed the defiant communist state's actions as detrimental to peace. They also accused it of engaging in unlawful and illegal activities and said that steps to improve its nuclear capabilities will not be tolerated.
Singapore's position is there should be denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula. Any step taken should not raise tensions but promote peace, Mr Shanmugam said on the sidelines of the four-day ministers' meetings here, including the Asean Regional Forum on security.
This is hypocritical. Who is Singapore to tell N Korea that its nuclear programme should be abandoned, when we ourselves are the biggest spender of arms in the region?
N Korea was quick to rebut.
However, North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun fired back in the discussions yesterday morning, calling the United States the "true provocateur" and saying it would retain its nuclear programme until Washington drops its "hostile" stance, reported Agence France-Presse.
It is a fact that US has been goading the world on N Korea. The US has sinister motives. It wants to create tension in the Asia-Pac region so that it could put its big ships and big guns here to counter China.
Sinkiepore, being a mouthpiece of the US, of course rants out loud and hard on the biiigg baaaad wolf that lies in the north of the Korean peninsula. Don't our ministers sound so hypocritical?
Barrie
*The author blogs at wherebearsroamfree.blogspot.ch