Gee, just when Cuba distinguished itself by sending more doctors to west African to treat Ebola patients than any other country, Cuba had to go and do this.
The UN General Assembly* voted 119 to 19, (55 chickenshit nations abstained) to refer the loathsome North Korea cult regime to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, after a UN investigation (years late) found grounds for prosecution of NK's rulers for murder, torture, and starving people.
Cuba was one of the 19 voting to protect the North Korean cult tyranny. Why Cuba wants to be identified with a pariah state is truly baffling. It only plays into the hands of U.S. propagandists, who portray Cuba as a pariah.
This was the “reasoning” Cuba offered for its vote: the measure seeking prosecution is a "tool to sanction and condemn developing countries."
Oh get off it!
The (now Raul) Castro regime should really avoid doing things that make it harder for decent people to defend it.
*The General Assembly is where most of the member nations sit and has virtually no power, as opposed to the Security Council, with 15 member nations, five of them permanent (the U.S. UK, Russia, China, and France, any one of which can veto any measure the SC votes for) and 10 rotating ones chosen by behind the scenes politicking. The Security Council can impose obligations on all UN members, such as forcing them to participate in economic sanctions against target nations (like Iran currently, and Iraq between 1990 and 2003).
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