Posted on 07/05/2012 7:55:08 AM PDT by kcvl
The U.S. State Department is investigating the shipment of computers and other sophisticated equipment to North Korea and Iran by way of an obscure United Nations agency, despite ongoing U.N. and U.S. sanctions against both governments aimed at blocking their development of nuclear weapons.
The broadening inquiry raises new concerns about the ways in which U.N. agencies have managed to sidestep restrictions that the world body expects the rest of the world to obey in halting the spread of sensitive technologies to nuclear-ambitious pariah regimes.
It also calls into question how much U.N. member states know about the activities of agencies they supposedly approve and supervise. In this case, there are hints that the top official at the U.N. agency, the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, “has not yet been fully open” to the inquiries, according to a senior U.S. official.
The State Department probe came in the wake of Fox News revelations in April about the actions by WIPO in sending such sensitive equipment to North Korea by a complicated method that seemed designed to bypass U.N. Security Council sanctions against the country.
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Corruption at the UN ?
The UN is a political organization, why should it not be corrupt like any other? Its now a complete joke. We should get out of it along with our $$ and use the funds here or use them to help our friends if we have any. No one seems to care about us when ever a disaster occurs.
The UN is a political organization, why should it not be corrupt like any other? Its now a complete joke. We should get out of it along with our $$ and use the funds here or use them to help our friends if we have any. No one seems to care about us when ever a disaster occurs.
Oooops, I guess I made my point. ?
Investigating the UN. Hillary was probably down at the docks helping them load the boat.
The UN is where kleptocrats park their incompetent clients, who naturally steal as much as they can. Of course the UN is corrupt.
Look in the right place, and you’ll see some pretty substantial payments went to some UN officials; just like “food for oil” in Iraq.
The computers, in this case, are probably going to the Nork cyberwarfare units that have been harassing South Korea.
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