Yokwe: Despite the threats to the Republic of the Marshall Islands sovereignty posed by climate impacts, the Pacific nation will not go underwater lying down, according to Phillip Muller, RMI Ambassador to the U.N. He was responding to the New York Times editorial of Aug. 29, "The Urgent Islands", which posed the question, "If a country sinks beneath the sea, is it still a country?" Previously, the Ambassador brought up the legal, but no longer academic questions, facing the …