Anju Links for 9/12/07
* Canadian Oil-for-Food scandal figure Maurice Strong, who took $1 million from Saddam Hussein as a senior U.N. official and confidant of Kofi Annan, has resurfaced in China. You’ll remember that Strong was also Kofi Annan’s Special Envoy to North Korea, and that the North Korean-born Tongsun Park, now serving a five-year prison sentence, was his bag-man and informal advisor on North Korea. All of which may go far to explain why the U.N. stood around performing a colonoscopy on itself while Kim Jong Il starved 2.5 million people and killed hundreds of thousands more in his killing fields.
* Also in U.N. scandal news: former Hungarian Prime Minister Miklos Nemeth will lead the “independent” panel investigating irregularities in the UNDP’s North Korea program, and the firing of the whistleblower who revealed them.
* If you’re going to be in Washington with some free time at 2:30 on September 19th, one of South Korea’s few heroes of the Great Famine will speak — the Venerable Pomnyun, leader of the Korean Buddhist Sharing Movement. More info and registration here.
* The South Korean-financed, appeasement-minded, and well-connected Korea Society spent last weekend touring North Korean diplomats and their families around Washington, D.C. The Korea Society is led by a former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, whom I debated here, but the State Department assures us that the visit involved no diplomatic contacts. Bullshit really is an industry in this city.
* Meanwhile, North Korean defectors are still showing up in Thailand, and South Korea is apparently still doing nothing for them.
* So Roh Moo Hyun wants to have a summit with Kim Jong Il where they won’t talk nukes or human rights. I could ask why they’re having a summit at all, and I could ask why South Korea has a Human Rights Commission, but those questions are asked well enough by ruNK, DPRK Forum, The Nomad, and Andy Jackson (don’t miss the Marmot’s comment). Front-runner Lee Myung Bak is now publicly urging Roh to raise the nuclear issue.
* What’s a band of wackadoodle 9/11 “truthers” to do if it can march right through Haight-Ashbury without drawing a crowd?
* If you read Korean, the Epoch Times covers a protest meeting led by Son Jong Hun, the brother of Son Jong Nam.
Yikes @ 9-11 “truthers”.
Maurice Strong…. not exactly Canada’s favourite son: http://101people.blogspot.com/2007/08/number-three-maurice-strong.html
the sad part about the 9/11 fruit loops is simply they wouldnt fight or stand up for anything about america if an attack happens again (and it will) they will be the first to side with the islamonut cases saying we made them do it, its america’s fault so everyone feel sorry for the freedom fighters who cut off people’s heads and bomb schools full of children
they march and demand change only when it involves america bending over and taking it from some 3rd world scum bags
the left loves all of them castro, chavez, bin laden!!