Tongsun Park Trial Update
Today, Claudia Rosett reports from the courtroom that Park was picking up the tab for Maurice Strong’s private New York office. And that matters, why?
Strong, for example, served in a public capacity in 1996 as a top adviser to former U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali, then from 1997-2005 as a special adviser to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. With the rank of under-secretary-general, Strong orchestrated Annan’s 1997 reorganization of the U.N. Secretariat, stayed on as a top adviser, and from 2003-2005 became Annan’s personal envoy to the nuclear hotspot of the Korean peninsula. Thanks not to any routine U.N. disclosure, but to an extraordinary mix of investigations, admissions, and sworn testimony accompanying the Oil-for-Food scandal, we have only over the past year or so begun hearing , that while Strong wore these high U.N. hats, from 1996-2005, Strong and Park were both involved in lobbying efforts to sell Canadian nuclear reactors to the Korean peninsula; were both involved in a million-dollar oil-company deal; and that Park advised Strong on issues relating to Strong’s role as Annan’s envoy to North Korea.
What’s odd about this is that a guy as loaded as Strong would even need the money.
A couple months ago, good old Maurice gave a speech at Hankuk Univ. of Foreign Studies’ Graduate School of International Area Studies. He was billed as a high level UN official of some kind. I googled him to find out what kind of stuff Ms. Rosett and others had written about him and that he was not “officially” with the UN. Too bad I didn’t have time to listen to his speech so I could be indoctrinated correctly. I’m sure the students were.
This is funny.
You mean good old Park Tong Sun from infamous lates 1970’s Koreagate? He was the front man for Moonies back then with backing from KCIA. I guess same dog doing turning to same tricks.
Same guy. Back then, he escaped the jailer by ratting out everyone else. This time, Samir Vincent is ratting Park out.