As
DPRK's Ja Song
Nam Gives
Credentials to
Ban, Kim Says
Congratulations
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 28 --
When the new
Permanent
Representative
of the
Democratic
People's
Republic of
Korea Ja Song
Nam came to
the UN to
hand
his
credentials to
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon,
there were
more
than ten
camera-people
who arrived 30
minutes early
to attend.
In
the Media
Accreditation
and Liaison
Unit it was
said this was
the
most interest
in the UN's
38th floor
since the last
General
Assembly
debate in
September
2013.
Inner
City Press had
asked if
outgoing
Permanent
Representative
Sin Son Ho
had made any
farewell
courtesy call
on Ban
Ki-moon,
formerly South
Korea's
foreign
minister. No,
was the
answer.
Along
with ten other
camera-people,
Inner City
Press was
screened by
electronic
wand and a
sniffing dog;
there was a
forty five
minute
waiting period
first
on the 37th
floor then
on 38 in the "Brian
Urquhart
Room,"
complete with
a miniature
Security
Council
donated by
Mozambique
and a small
model tank
given by
Pakistan,
tweeted photo
here.
Finally
the
photo gaggle
was called
into Ban's
conference
room. The
Under
Secretary
General of the
Department of
Economic and
Social
Affairs,
from China,
was there, as
was Ban's
senior advisor
Kim Won-soo.
Ja
Song Nam was
ushered in and
counseled by
Ban's chief of
protocol.
Then Ban
entered from
his office, shook
hands and
exchanged some
few
words in
Korean with Ja
Song Nam.
Kim
Won-soo said,
in English,
congratulations.
Then they went
back into
Ban's office,
and the
camera-people
were asked to
leave. Is it a
new
era? Watch
this site.
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