UNDP says it suspended all its operations in North Korea when the Kim regime refused to cooperate in an investigation of UNDP funding and staffing methods in the country, as well as the unexplained presence of thousands of dollars of counterfeit U.S. money that was stashed in a UNDP safe in Pyongyang.
Nonetheless, according to the internal documents seen by FOX News, close to $2 million in UNDP money was disbursed to Mercy for a project clearly labeled “MCI-DPRK” (the acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, as North Korea is formally known), and numbered in the UNDP book-keeping system as 12431.
The payments stretch from 2004 to January 2007 ” or just weeks after accusations were first raised by U.S. diplomats concerning the hard-currency UNDP payments to the Kim regime. More than $200,000 was released to the Mercy Corps project at the end of January 2007.
Additional documents seen by FOX News seem to indicate that much more money ” roughly $5.9 million ” was budgeted by UNDP over the same 2004-2007 period under the MCI-DPRK rubric.
And intriguingly, most of the funds ” roughly $4.6 million ” are listed on the UNDP budget as coming from the U.S. Since 2002, the Bush Administration has expressly forbidden that any of the roughly $100 million it donated annually to UNDP be used on any project connected with the North Korean regime. (The U.S. government contribution is currently about $125 million.) UNDP has always declared that it honored those wishes.
UNDP operations in North Korea have been a hot-button issue for much of this year, following U.S. charges that the development organization had violated its rules for dealing with the North Korean regime. A U.S. congressional subcommittee is preparing to hold hearings on exactly how UNDP funneled millions in hard currency to the Kim regime, and whether some of that money ended up in North Korea’s illicit nuclear weapons programs
The money itemized in project 12431 is not part of that congressional inquiry, and the purpose of the project is not revealed in the documents seen by FOX News. Internal UNDP records further seem to indicate that the project has never been audited or formally evaluated through conventional UNDP mechanisms ” normally a requirement for all UNDP projects of any magnitude or duration.
Just another reason to get out of the United Nations
Remember there is a Congressman from CA that flies the UN flag instead of a US Flag. That traitor should be expelled, not only from Congress, but from the US permanently.
The UN is the biggest supporters of our enemies and thats wahy we should dump their whole damn UN and evict this bunch of crinimals from our nation:-w