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Should the U.S. remain in the United Nations?

Should Australia maintain a presence at the United Nations?

The UN. is an organization of governments founded in 1945 after World War II. The organization's objectives include promoting peace and security, protecting human rights and the environment and providing humanitarian aid in cases of famine, natural disaster, and armed conflict. Recent U.N. interventions include the Sri Lankan civil war in 2009 and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Australia joined the U.N. in 1945 as a founding member nation. Australia is the twelfth largest financial contributor to the UN and contributes $30 million annually.

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Yes
9%
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4%
Yes, but scale back our current involvement
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No, and remove the U.N. headquarters from the U.S.
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Yes, and use the U.N. peacekeeping forces to protect our interests

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 @9ZNMKQBanswered…1wk1W

Yes, we should remain involved in the U.N and with a relatively strong stance, yet not without first taking care of our interests and needs that do not unnecessarily rob us of resources.

 @9ZJWQMBanswered…2wks2W

What a stupid question. With the inevitability of world war three approaching you want Australia to seperate where it no longer has the support of other nations in the aspect of military defence? You want Australia to solely defend themselves against someone like Russia? Whoever made these questions should no longer have a job.

 @9WRFSMNanswered…1mo1MO

No, instead inject the money that we spend in our own and surrounding country environment, health and human rights, animal rights etc.

 @9DN5884answered…1yr1Y

be like switzerland

 @9DK5R2Xanswered…1yr1Y

Yes and ask for reforms, such as electing a new security council.

 @9D7QJS7answered…1yr1Y

The U.N is corrput, Australia shouldn't hold a presence in something that's burning their economy.

 @8X6TXTKanswered…3yrs3Y

yes but actually do something for our future instead of screwing around with commitments in 2050 and dial it to 2030

 @9D3DWZ5answered…1yr1Y

Yes, and push for Taiwan to be recognised

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Missiles for Moscow: North Korea's Secret Factory Fuels Russia's War Machine

North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a U.S.-based think tank have concluded, based on satellite images.The facility, known as the February 11 plant, is part of the Ryongsong Machine Complex in Hamhung, North Korea's second-largest city, on the country's east coast.Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), located at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, said the plant was the only one known to produce the Hwasong-11 class of solid-fuel ballistic missiles.Ukrainian officials say these munitions - known as the KN-23 in the West - have been used by Russian forces in their assault on Ukraine.The expansion of the complex has not been previously reported.Both Moscow and Pyongyang have denied that North Korea has transferred weapons for Russia to use against Ukraine, which it invaded in February 2022. Russia and North Korea signed a mutual defense treaty at a summit in June and have pledged to boost their military ties.North Korea's mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment for this story.The satellite images, taken in early October by the commercial satellite firm Planet Labs, show what appears to be an additional assembly building under construction as well as a new housing facility, likely intended for workers, according to the analysis by researchers at CNS.It also appears that Pyongyang is improving the entrances for some of the underground facilities at the complex.A disused bridge crane that was in front of a tunnel entrance, blocking easy access, was removed, suggesting they might be placing an emphasis on that part of the facility, Lair said."We see this as a suggestion that they're massively increasing, or they're trying to significantly increase, the throughput of this factory," Lair said.The new assembly building is about 60 to 70 percent the size of the previous building used to assemble missiles.

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