US: UN Agency Provided Millions In Hard Currency To North Korea

Associated Press (excerpt) ^ | January 19, 2007

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UNITED NATIONS (AP)--The U.S. accused the U.N. development agency of funneling millions of dollars in hard currency to North Korea with little assurance that leader Kim Jong Il used the money to help his people instead of diverting it to other activities including nuclear weapons, according to U.S. officials and letters obtained Friday.

U.S. deputy ambassador Mark Wallace charged that the agency's program in North Korea operated "in blatant violation of U.N. rules" for years. He demanded an immediate external audit of the program going back to at least 1998 that would focus on U.S. concerns that Pyongyang converted U.N. development funds "to its own illicit purposes."

The U.N. Development Program, known as UNDP, said the use of hard currency for its operations in North Korea "in difficult circumstances" was approved by its executive board and it would welcome an external audit. Following the U.N. imposition of sanctions against North Korea in October for conducting a nuclear test, UNDP said it was taking measures to prevent "unintended consequences" of its activities.

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[PGalt]

What!? Another UNaccountable bureaucrat scandal?

[Dog Gone]

Shockarooski!

[zarf]

I'm stunned. /s

[HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath]

Now that Saddam is gone, the U.N. department of bribery and corruption needed some new clientele.

[pissant]

Dirty rotten bastards.