Comments on: State: N. Korea Spent UN Funds to Buy Property in France, Britain, Canada http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/ Tue, 22 May 2012 21:47:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: OneFreeKorea » House Moves to Cut Funds for UNDP, Human Rights Council http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-48210 OneFreeKorea » House Moves to Cut Funds for UNDP, Human Rights Council Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:47:45 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/#comment-48210 [...] Each entity has recently brought particular discredit on itself, and in each case, there is a North Korea nexus.  The UNDP recently failed a UN internal audit after U.S. diplomats outed the organization for allowing its Pyongyang operations to become, as a U.N. staffer put it, “an ATM machine” for the regime.  It turns out that North Korea used some of the funds to buy overseas real estate and dual-use equipment, and that the U.N. even had a stock of counterfeit currency in one of its safes that handled North Korea program-related funds. [...] [...] Each entity has recently brought particular discredit on itself, and in each case, there is a North Korea nexus.  The UNDP recently failed a UN internal audit after U.S. diplomats outed the organization for allowing its Pyongyang operations to become, as a U.N. staffer put it, “an ATM machine” for the regime.  It turns out that North Korea used some of the funds to buy overseas real estate and dual-use equipment, and that the U.N. even had a stock of counterfeit currency in one of its safes that handled North Korea program-related funds. [...]

]]> By: North Korea Blog » State: N. Korea Spent UN Funds to Buy Property in France, Britain, Canada http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-47470 North Korea Blog » State: N. Korea Spent UN Funds to Buy Property in France, Britain, Canada Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:35:51 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/#comment-47470 [...] Read more of this story… [...] [...] Read more of this story… [...]

]]> By: Fred Fry http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-46750 Fred Fry Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:11:22 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/#comment-46750 Interesting. Thanks for further proving my post " The UN Cannot Save the North Koreans (So Stop Trying)". The North Korean Government is holding it's own population hostage. Interesting.

Thanks for further proving my post ” The UN Cannot Save the North Koreans (So Stop Trying)”.

The North Korean Government is holding it’s own population hostage.

]]> By: More Details on the UN Hemorrhage of Cash into North Korea at DPRK Studies http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-46737 More Details on the UN Hemorrhage of Cash into North Korea at DPRK Studies Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:55:16 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/#comment-46737 [...] State: N. Korea Spent UN Funds to Buy Property in France, Britain, Canada [...] [...] State: N. Korea Spent UN Funds to Buy Property in France, Britain, Canada [...]

]]> By: China and North Korea: more violations of Human Rights « Spanish Pundit http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/comment-page-1/#comment-46736 China and North Korea: more violations of Human Rights « Spanish Pundit Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:42:51 +0000 http://freekorea.us/2007/06/10/state-n-korea-spent-un-funds-to-buy-property-in-france-britain-canada/#comment-46736 [...] North Korea would not be a poor country -as it is- if it would not be because of its Government, who is now spending UN Funds to buy property in France, Britain and Canada. Even the UN has conceeded North Korea has violated UN rules: About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business records. Millions more, the department reported, went to a North Korean institution linked to a bank alleged to handle arms deals. [...] [...] North Korea would not be a poor country -as it is- if it would not be because of its Government, who is now spending UN Funds to buy property in France, Britain and Canada. Even the UN has conceeded North Korea has violated UN rules: About $3 million in United Nations money intended to help impoverished North Koreans was diverted by the Pyongyang government toward the purchase of property in France, the United Kingdom and Canada, according to a confidential State Department account of witness reports and internal business records. Millions more, the department reported, went to a North Korean institution linked to a bank alleged to handle arms deals. [...]

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