Korea Trying to Bribe their Way to the Top UN Post?
It feels like 2000 all over again, when then Korean President Kim Dae-jung bribed his way to receiving a Nobel Peace Prize. Now accusations are being made that the current Korean government is trying to bribe their way to winning the UN Secretary General position:
 India’s Shashi Tharoor’s bid for UN secretary-generalship may stand a chance with a report claiming that South Korea was spending millions of dollars in aid and offering other incentives to Security Council members to get support for its candidate Ban Ki Moon.
In its aggressive campaign on behalf of Ban, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the front-runner to succeed Kofi Annan, Seoul has been offering “inducements ranging from tens of millions of pounds of extra funding for African countries to lucrative trade agreements in Europe- and even the gift of a grand piano to
Peru,” The Times has reported.
Ban Ki-moon would actually be a perfect person to take the UN job because he is well trained obviously in corruption, overlooking human rights abuses, appeasing dictators, and bashing to US, which are all prerequisite skills for any UN Secretary General. Â Â More on this over at TKL.
