New UN chief is a "Moonie"

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Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)
October 23, 2006

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Ban Ki-moon: Looking like a "Moonie" every day and planning to sack top UN staff and replace them with his "own people".

WMR's scoop on the ties between UN Secretary General-designate Ban Ki-moon and Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church (http://www.perkel.com/politics/moonies) have the United Nations and international press astir. This editor has just returned from the UN, where the talk about Ban's past (or lack thereof) were the talk of the week.

 

Ban, in an interview with The Times of London, said he planned to clean house and replace all of Kofi Annan's (http://www.radioislam.org/islam/english/iraq/blix.htm) top deputies, a goal shared with the Bush administration and U.S. unconfirmed ambassador to the UN John Bolton.

Ban will name an official replacement for the UN special envoy to Korea, a post vacated by Canadian Maurice Strong (http://www.cbcwatch.ca/?q=node/view/1656), forced to step aside in the UN Oil-for-Food scandal.

 

Ban also intends to sack the Deputy Secretary General, Mark Malloch Brown, the Briton who has been particularly critical of the Bush administration. Other sackings of top UN officials are also expected. Some have already taken place among UN peacekeeping operations personnel.

Ban, who earned the nickname "Slippery Eel" because of his failure to adequately answer questions from the Korean press, was similarly slippery when asked about his ties to Sun Myung Moon.

 

In answer to a question from Times' reporter James Bone, Ban stated rejected as "groundless" rumors sweeping UN headquarters about his or his family's ties to the Reverend Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church. Ban said, "My mother is Buddhist. She has been praying her whole life for me".

 

However, Ban also lists his religious affiliation as "non-denominational Korean Christian". The more Ban refutes his connections to the Moonies, the more it appears that he may be one of them.

 

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Times (October 17, 2006)

I plan to focus on North Korea, says new man in charge of UN

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25689-2406855.html