The UN is a Joke

A sick, twisted, astronomically expensive joke. Further evidence (as if we needed any more):

The 66th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) on Thursday observed a minute's silence to mourn the death of Kim Jong Il, leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th General Assembly session, asked the representatives of 193 UN member states attending a plenary session on economic and financial affairs to pay tribute to the late DPRK leader, who died on Dec. 17. 

The move was at the request of the DPRK, said the president, and the one-minute silence was observed before the start of the plenary meeting of the General Assembly.

Seriously?  "Mourn the death of Kim Jong Il"?  "Pary tribute to the late DPRK leader"?  The man starved millions of his own people to death, enslaved the rest and terrorized his neighbors, and these people think it's appropriate to mourn and pay tribute to him?  

Don't get me wrong, I'm not surprised.  This is the same organization that's had countries like Cuba, Libya and Iran on its "Human Rights Commission".  It just never ceases to amaze me that some Americans continue to have faith in this decomposing corpse of an organization.