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Maurice Strong Update: Kofi Annan’s resigned-and-disgraced Special Envoy for North Korea hired his own stepdaughter, in violation of U.N. rules.

Maurice Strong Update: Kofi Annan’s resigned-and-disgraced Special Envoy for North Korea hired his own stepdaughter, in violation of U.N. rules.

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...

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...

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...