UN: North Korea’s ATM?
(Via. Right Wing Nut House) The opening paragraph of this Chicago Tribune article is priceless
WASHINGTON — The United Nations Development Programme office in Pyongyang, North Korea, sits in a Soviet-style compound. Like clockwork, a North Korean official wearing a standard-issue dark windbreaker and slacks would come to the door each business day.
He would take a manila envelope stuffed with cash–a healthy portion of the UN’s disbursements for aid projects in the country–and leave without ever providing receipts.
This is a common syndrome that hits all bureaucracies. It is the tendency to take money that do not belong to them and use it with impunity. Check out the rest of the spot on commentary.
Update: I wonder why create an elaborate ruse when NK could just ask.
Update #2: ReliefWeb has info on how the UNDP is “supposed” to work.
