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I can’t even begin to scratch the detail that Ms. Rosett has added to our knowledge of the Korean Connection with her most recent Oil-For-Food article. For some time, my interest in Oil-For-Food has focused in on Tongsun Park, who was born in North Korea, and Maurice Strong, Kofi Annan’s former Special Envoy to North Korea. Strong resigned from that position last May, after news reports named him as the possible recipient of some of Saddam Hussein’s bribe money, conveyed...

Tongsun Park–Arrested in Mexico? That certainly suggests a much higher level of U.S. interest in what he knows, as well as a much lower interest by Park in cooperating. Of course, he ratted everyone out after his Koreagate indictment. Let’s hope the pattern holds up. Update: . . . and on his way from Canada, home of Liberal Party supporter and Oil-For-Food co-suspect Maurice Strong, to God-knows-where, on the very eve of the Canadian national election. If this proves to...

Months after he was indicted by the feds in New York, oil-for-food bag man Tongsun Park has been arrested. Tongsun Park, a lobbyist from South Korea who was a central figure in the Congressional bribery scandal in the 1970’s known as Koreagate, was arrested yesterday in Houston on charges that he worked illegally to secure favorable treatment for Iraq under the United Nations oil-for-food program, federal authorities said. Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan, announced that Mr....

According to a recent federal criminal complaint, South Korean citizen Tongsun Park was the bag man who carried Saddam’s millions to U.N. officials. A growing body of evidence suggests that Park invested $1 million in a company set up by the son of Maurice Strong, the U.N. Special Envoy to North Korea. Park was born in North Korea and Strong has admitted to seeking his advice in the course of his special envoy duties. After exposure of the payments, Strong...

According to a recent federal criminal complaint, South Korean citizen Tongsun Park was the bag man who carried Saddam’s millions to U.N. officials. A growing body of evidence suggests that Park invested $1 million in a company set up by the son of Maurice Strong, the U.N. Special Envoy to North Korea. Park was born in North Korea and Strong has admitted to seeking his advice in the course of his special envoy duties. After exposure of the payments, Strong...

Score another one for Claudia Rosett: NEW YORK — Maurice Strong, a prominent Canadian businessman and envoy for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, acknowledged ties yesterday with a South Korean businessman accused of wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal. Mr. Strong, Mr. Annan’s special adviser for North Korea, said in a statement that Tongsun Park invested in an energy company with which he was associated in 1997, but denied any wrongdoing. “Ties,” being the key word. Does this mean that Strong was...

Score another one for Claudia Rosett: NEW YORK — Maurice Strong, a prominent Canadian businessman and envoy for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, acknowledged ties yesterday with a South Korean businessman accused of wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal. Mr. Strong, Mr. Annan’s special adviser for North Korea, said in a statement that Tongsun Park invested in an energy company with which he was associated in 1997, but denied any wrongdoing. “Ties,” being the key word. Does this mean that Strong was...

Claudia Rosett and I have had an intermittent e-mail correspondence now for about a year. For those of you not familiar with Claudia’s work, she’s a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the one person more responsible than any other for investigative reporting of Oil-for-Food–a fact that guaranteed that she’d be ignored by the Pulitzer committee. Claudia reported from the scene of the Tienanmen Massacre in 1989 and has also been one of the most outspoken writers on the...

Claudia Rosett and I have had an intermittent e-mail correspondence now for about a year. For those of you not familiar with Claudia’s work, she’s a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the one person more responsible than any other for investigative reporting of Oil-for-Food–a fact that guaranteed that she’d be ignored by the Pulitzer committee. Claudia reported from the scene of the Tienanmen Massacre in 1989 and has also been one of the most outspoken writers on the...

In final the days leading up to Freedom House’s Seoul conference, the movement to put human rights back into the center of South Korea’s policy toward the North appears to be gaining momentum. It is still a fragile moment. The momentum could still be lost to petty factional and interpersonal disputes. If the movement’s leading lights unite, however, it could also shift South Korea’s national debate, across the political spectrum, as Korea’s political parties prepare and adjust their platforms in...

I don’t have much to offer on the various theories about whether the North Koreans are really about to test a nuke, for two excellent reasons. The first of these is that the mother of my two children (also my wife, in case you were going to ask) had the temerity to expect me to pry myself away from the computer over Mother’s Day weekend. We ended up spending most of the weekend eating out, taking long drives in the...

I don’t have much to offer on the various theories about whether the North Koreans are really about to test a nuke, for two excellent reasons. The first of these is that the mother of my two children (also my wife, in case you were going to ask) had the temerity to expect me to pry myself away from the computer over Mother’s Day weekend. We ended up spending most of the weekend eating out, taking long drives in the...

Claudia Rosett has another column in today’s Wall Street Journal. The information I was hoping to see, but didn’t, was more about this tantalizing excerpt in another one of her recent columns: [Maurice] Strong is a Canadian tycoon with extensive experience at the United Nations, where he has served as secretary-general of the 1992 Earth Summit, as chief architect of the Kyoto Treaty, and as the world body’s guru of governance in the 1990s. Mr. Strong also has abundant connections...

Claudia Rosett has another column in today’s Wall Street Journal. The information I was hoping to see, but didn’t, was more about this tantalizing excerpt in another one of her recent columns: [Maurice] Strong is a Canadian tycoon with extensive experience at the United Nations, where he has served as secretary-general of the 1992 Earth Summit, as chief architect of the Kyoto Treaty, and as the world body’s guru of governance in the 1990s. Mr. Strong also has abundant connections...