At
the UN, The
Case of Jim
Kim and the
On-Again Photo
Op, DPRK Video
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 5, video at UN here -- When World
Bank president
Jim Yong Kim
showed
up on the
public
schedule of UN
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon for
Tuesday at
5:30, there
was no photo
op.
It seemed
strange, and
Inner
City Press and
another member
of the Free
UN Coalition
for Access
made
inquiries.
When
Jim Kim and a
small
entourage went
into the
Security
Council
mid-afternoon,
to meet this
month's
Council
president Kim
Sook of
South Korea,
Inner City
Press tweeted
it, including
questioning
why
no photo op
with Ban.
If you've got
it, flaunt it,
seemed to be
and
was the
advice.
Meanwhile
at
the noon
briefing and
again outside
the Security
Council in the
UN
basement,
Inner City
Press asked
about the
morning's North Korean
video, of
a young man
dreaming and a
missile
flying, an
American flag
in flames. "We
are the World"
was the sound
track, and
some
video game
footage was
used.
That
led to
copyright
problems, and
by mid
afternoon
several copies
had
come down. Ban
Ki-moon's
spokesman told
Inner City
Press Ban had
not
seen the
movie. The
same seemed to
be the case in
the Security
Council.
Finally
it
was
announced that
there'd be a
photo op
of Ban Ki-moon
and Jim Kim.
Upstairs on
the 38th
floor, though
Ban's deputy
spokesman was
there, very
little was
said
while Inner
City Press and
the FUNCA
colleague were
there. The two
men
greeted each
other in
Korean, then assumed
different
sides of the
long
conference
table.
Inner City
Press YouTube
video here.
In
the room with
Team
Ban was
his post-2015
specialist,
his chief of
staff Susana
Malcorra, his
deputy Jan
Eliasson, Bob
Orr the
corporate
and Korean
powerhouse,
among others.
As
of 7 pm there
was no
readout. We'll
try not to
read into, as
the
spokesman told
Inner City
Press about
the lack
of a readout
for Ban's
February 4
meeting with
Madagascar's
leader.
But why not
read this
one out? Watch
this site.
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