Il-For-Food
Not content to let Saddam Hussein carry the mantle of ‘most profligate waster of UN money”, Kim Jung-Il has weighed in with his own little scandal:
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.
Nothing was disclosed even to the UNDP Executive Board, which oversees its operations and is composed of representatives of 36 nations — including the United States and, this year, North Korea itself.
That fact is sure to be a bombshell at the Executive Board’s regular annual meeting, which begins Friday and extends through Jan. 26. Among the main items to be discussed is the $18 million, two-year UNDP budget in North Korea.
Kim has a long way to go to catch the recently deceased Hussein’s Oil-For-Food boondoggle, but it’s a good start…
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January 19th, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Aren’t we the lucky ones to know about this scandal? Another reason to believe that the UN is the most unless piece of scatology ever to have existed on the face of the earth. Another feather in Kofi’s hat.
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:00 am
[…] UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon is off to a good start. He is responding quickly to Il-For-Food allegations: U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon has been on the job for less than a month, but with a 26-word announcement Friday he did more to reform that international body than anything ever attempted by predecessor Kofi Annan. […]