On
N.
Korea, As UN
Amos Says Stay
Clear of
Politics, Kim
Won-soo
Beside Her
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
October 26 --
Hunger in
North Korea
should be kept
separate
from politics,
UN
Humanitarian
Coordinator
Valerie Amos
said
Wednesday
after showing
a video of her
recent mission
to the
country.
The
film shows at
her side
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
senior adviser
Kim Won-soo,
who previously
traveled to
North Korea
along with
Lynn Pascoe
the
chief of the
UN Department
of Political
Affairs.
Inner
City Press
asked Amos
whether Mr.
Kim had any
political --
Department of
Political
Affairs --
role during
the trip. Amos
said Kim was
part of
her
delegation,
and that the
Secretary
General and by
implication
his
senior adviser
is in charge
of
humanitarian
as well as
political
affairs. But
can or do they
keep them
separate?
(c) UN Photo
Kim
Won-soo talks
with Dep't of
POLITICAL
Affairs
Pascoe, film
not shown
Last
week the UN's
Special
Rapporteur on
human rights
in North
Korea, Marzuki
Darusman,
painted a
bleak pictures
of rights in
the country.
Still he held
out
hope; some
noted that Ban
had also
appointed him
chair of his
Panel
of Experts on
Sri Lanka,
whose report
has yet to be
acted on.
A
copy of the
video was
promised to
Inner City
Press at the
end of the
press
conference,
but has yet to
be provided.
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