Ban
Ki-moon, Nephew Exposed by
Press, Froze It Out 2008, Up to Old Tricks on S Korea
Campaign Trail
By Matthew
Russell Lee, 23rd in a Series
UNITED NATIONS,
January 19 – Before Ban
Ki-moon left the UN, he
involved it in one US federal
bribery case - and another was
filed against his brother and
nephew days after he left.
But not
before Ban had evicted and
still restricts Inner City
Press which asked him about
his nephew Dennis Bahn working
at the UN's landlord Colliers,
for example in May
2015, here. (Fox wrote
about it, today.)
Now in
South Korea, where Inner City
Press' exclusives including
about brother Ban Ki Ho mining
in Myanmar with a UN
delegation are credited,
Ban is being exposed as what
he is. He can only fill out a
condolence book when he has
prepared notes, there
as here.
He was overheard,
with Lee Do-woon to whom the
UN told Inner City Press to
direct all of its UN
questions, called students he
had just met with "bastards."
It is reminiscent of this,
from Inner City Press' 2008
archives, part of its ongoing
Ban's
Bad Decade series:
"UNITED NATIONS, May 28 --
There are reasons that relations with the
press can go awry. This column is devoted to
only one recent example, with the Office of
the Spokesperson for the Secretary General
of the UN, the OSSG.
Just
before Ban Ki-moon left to travel to Myanmar
to meet with Senior General Than Shwe, the
UN press corps was summoned to a question
and answer session with him at the media
stakeout in front of the Security Council
chamber. One of the junior members of the
OSSG came down and said that only two or
three questions could be taken. Then he
whispered instructions to technicians, "We
would appreciate it if you don't give the
microphone to [Inner City Press]."
This
seems more controlling that necessary, given
that the OSSG by pointing tries, usually
successfully, to decide who gets to ask Ban
a question. It is possible that Ban does not
even know of these things done in his name.
Inner City Press wrote
obliquely about the incident on May 20,
choosing not to identify the frozen-out
media.
During
Ban Ki-moon's side-trip to China on May 24,
the day he left Myanmar so as to not be
present during the controversial polling in
the cyclone zone, occupying one of only
three "press" seats on the plane was a
representative of UN Radio. Since this is an
in-house organ, which pointedly did not ask
Ban any questions about Aung San Suu Kyi,
back in New York, in
an article about events in Myanmar,
Inner City Press included a half-joking
footnote which in admitted hyperbole said "the
UN, on Ban's jaunt to China, allowed very few
outside reporters, but made a space for its
own in-house radio to come along, as Than Shwe
himself might have done."
At
the end of Ban Ki-moon's decade
as UN Secretary General,
covering up genocides in Sri
Lanka, Burundi
and Yemen
and evicting
the Press which asked about
(t)his corruption, Inner
City Press is reviewing Ban's
tenure, year by year. See also this Twitter
Moment.
And
now Ban aver evicting the Press
in New York threatens
to sue, for ambition.
While Ban threatens further necessary
measures according to one Korean media -- Ban
refused to release the threat letter; Inner
City Press appeared
on JTBC television news in Korea, here
-- others are given
statistics about how much Ban traveled
during his UN decade.
This special service to some Korean
media, while evicting the investigative Press,
was a hallmark of the Ban era, which early on
featured false Ban claims of transparency,
which would culminate in 2017 with Ban
unwilling
to state his net worth in 2007 and
now.
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