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UN NORTH KOREA SCANDAL?


[+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx
created Tue Jan 23, 07
"UNITED NATIONS – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon responded quickly to U.S. accusations that the U.N. development agency funneled millions of dollars in cash aid to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, calling on all U.N. funds and programs to conduct an urgent outside investigation into their operations.
Ban's decision to press for outside audits not only of the U.N. Development Program's activities in North Korea but of all U.N. programs indicated he was determined to avoid a repetition of the scandal over the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq which bubbled for months before former Secretary-General Kofi Annan agreed to an independent investigation.



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In the North Korean case, U.S. officials questioned whether funds intended to help the country's impoverished people had been used for other activities including nuclear weapons development. The U.N. program, known as UNDP, said it has operated in North Korea since 1979 and no concerns have been raised about its funds being used for the North's nuclear arms program.
U.S. deputy ambassador Mark Wallace charged Friday that the U.N. agency operated “in blatant violation of U.N. rules” for years in North Korea. He demanded an immediate outside audit, focusing on concerns that Pyongyang converted development funds “to its own illicit purposes.”"

(Source: San Diego Tribune)


- Obviously, the UN is incompetent. But does it seem the new UN Secretery General Ban Ki-moon seems more determined to fight corruption in the UN than Kofi Annan was?

Yes, the new UN Secretery General seems to be a slight improvement 4
We will see 3
No, I don't believe so 2

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Yes, the new UN Secretery General seems to be a slight improvement
I have gotten that impression. He just seems more determined and idealistic to truly struggle against UN corruption. But I don't think he will succeed, as one idealistic individual is not enough against an incompetent and backward bureaucracy like the UN.

by xxxxxxxx on Tue Jan 23, 07 1:11pm [+]

Too soon to tell. If so it'd be a wonderful turn around, not that he'd have to do much to be better than the last guy.

I'll hold off judgement for now on this guy.
by herzog on Tue Jan 23, 07 1:30pm [+]

Voted : Yes, the new UN Secretery General seems to be a slight improvement
Those Asians are just so darned efficient.
by _Beelzebubba on Tue Jan 23, 07 1:48pm [+]

"not that he'd have to do much to be better than the last guy."

Is necon herzog talking about Bush?
by cranky on Tue Jan 23, 07 3:08pm [+]

And it was easy to tell that this wasn't a herzog ballot, since it didn't absolutely condemn the UN; rather, it held out hope that, at some point, the UN might become somewhat less incompetent and corrupt than the Bush Administration.

Socrates, if you are going to produce clone ballots that live up to the bigotry of the original, you'll have to remember: The UN is ALWAYS bad.
by cranky on Tue Jan 23, 07 3:12pm [+]

Voted : We will see
Advertisement Seems like an improvement but I wonder how much of it was due to the fact that the object of corruption is North Korea.


PS... get rid of the advertisement before you submit the ballot
by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Tue Jan 23, 07 3:15pm [+]

cranky- "if you are going to produce clone ballots that live up to the bigotry of the original, you'll have to remember: The UN is ALWAYS bad."

- I cannot make such ballots, because I do not believe that absolutely everything about the UN is bad. There are some things I actually indeed admire about the UN: see ballot #105292
by xxxxxxxx on Wed Jan 24, 07 2:56am [+]

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