Has North Korean leader Kim Jong Il subverted the United Nations Development Program, the $4 billion agency that is the U.N.’s main development arm, and possibly stolen tens of millions of dollars of hard currency in the process? According to a top official of the U.S. State Department — using findings made by the U.N.’s own auditors — the answer appears to be a disturbing yes, so far as UNDP programs in North Korea itself are concerned. And just as disturbingly, the U.N. aid agency bureaucracy has kept the scamming a secret since at least 1999 — while the North Korean dictator and his regime were ramping up their illegal nuclear weapons program and making highly publicized tests of intermediate range ballistic missiles.Hat Tip: Instapundit.
blogging my (mis)adventures in China between and during bouts of jetlag peppered with random thoughts on investing, strategy and development
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Business as usual at the UN
This relates directly to the leadership of Kofi Annan. Of course it didn't start with him, and I doubt it will have stopped with him. From FoxNews:
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