The blogosphere is talking about this New York Sun story about counterfeit US dollars being produced in North Korea and 35 $100 bills being hidden in the UN safe there for quite some time.

As federal investigators examine how the leading U.N. agency in North Korea illegally kept 35 counterfeit American $100 bills in its possession for 12 years, documents indicate that more officials were aware of the existence of the fake currency —and earlier — than the agency has reported.

Spokesmen for the United Nations Development Program have said top officials at the agency’s New York headquarters learned in February that their safe in Pyongyang contained the counterfeit bills and immediately reported it to American authorities. But several documents shown recently to The New York Sun indicate that higher-ups knew much earlier that the safe held counterfeit money.

The documents are part of a worldwide reporting system that allows the agency to keep track of the contents of its office safes.

One “safe contents count record” — shown to the Sun with the stipulation that the paper omit such details as the exact issuing date, which was before February — confirms that fake money was in the safe in Pyongyang. According to a source familiar with the system, this and similar records were filed with UNDP headquarters twice a year.

Internal UNDP communication shown to the Sun also indicates that in at least one incident, a Pyongyang office manager reported the existence of the counterfeit money to his successor. Similar reports were filed with the seven managers that have served in North Korea since 1995. Some of these managers have returned to UNDP headquarters since then and now serve as top officials there.

The Secret Service and federal prosecutors in the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York are investigating the matter and have sought out at least 13 UNDP officials for interviews. But questions about diplomatic immunity and whether lawyers can represent the officials during those interviews have yet to be resolved.

“We are cooperating with the Southern District,” a senior U.N. official said yesterday, and added, “We are currently working out the modalities.” The official, who requested anonymity because the matter is under investigation, said that in the past, immunity has been lifted only when criminal indictments are handed out.

As usual, the UN is claiming, falsely, they made the US aware of the situation as soon as they found out about it in February.

Just as the UN peacekeepers didn’t help Hezbollah by reporting Israeli positions in the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah. If you believe that I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you.

The February date came shortly after the Wall Street Journal published a story, “Cash for Kim,” which reported that the UNDP violated its own rules by providing the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Il, with hard currency. The agency’s board of directors, under American pressure, then instructed the UNDP to suspend its North Korean operation, and it was shuttered March 1.

UNDP officials concede that the increased outside scrutiny that resulted from the Journal article could have led the agency to examine its Pyongyang office more closely, which may have led to the discovery of the counterfeit cash.

Critics, however, allege that top officials deliberately concealed the existence of the counterfeit currency out of concern that the operation would be shut down, and that they reported it to the American authorities only after they realized that it would be suspended anyway.

The UN and its ruling dictators have not been friends of the United States for many many years.

Having them on US soil with diplomatic immunity only allows countries to spy on us and vote against anything that is in the interests of the free world.

The only thing they want from us is our dues and it’s time now to withdraw from that organization and let them use their Brussels headquarters as their world headquarters.

If they demand back dues we should pay them in Monopoly money.

They have allowed a rogue state, a declared enemy of our country, to counterfeit our money almost to perfection and not reported it to us until they got caught. They have allowed North Korea to undermine our economy and we must not ignore it.

Now they are protecting those who had a part in hiding this information from us and got promoted besides, from being questioned by our authorities, under the claim of diplomatic immunity until they are indicted.

How can we reasonably be expected to indict someone if we can’t talk to them to see if they are culpable in this crime against the people of the United States?

Whatever usefulness this organization once had is long gone and our hospitality to them should be also.

Also blogging on this, and doing much better jobs of it are:

Sister Toldjah

Captain’s Quarters

Nobody asked me, But…

Stix Blog

Written by ~J~

3 Responses to “It Is Now Time For The US To Leave The UN And Send It To Brussels”

1. alex says:

   April 11, 2007 at 3:15 pm

   hi nice site.
2. robert says:

   June 14, 2007 at 2:52 pm

   hi all.
3. Sue says:

   June 14, 2007 at 2:56 pm

   Hello Robert and Alex. Welcome and please come back and see us and join in the conversation.