On
N. Korea, Kim
Sook Says
Russia Won't
Want “Hot
Potato,”
Rice &
Cafeteria Talk
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 15 –
Following
North Korea's
nuclear test,
how
quickly will
the UN
Security
Council adopt
a resolution?
Inner City
Press put the
question this
week to
Council
president Kim
Sook of
South Korea.
“It
will be
swift,” Kim
Sook replied.
He said that
next month's
Council
president,
Russia, will
not want to be
stuck with
this “hot
potato.”
“So
the hot
potato,” Inner
City Press
said to Kim
Sook, “is in
your
hands.”
“With
gloves,” Kim
Sook replied.
Meanwhile
US
Ambassador
Susan Rice, on
Comedy
Central's
Daily Show on
Thursday
night, when
asked by Jon
Stewart if the
threat of
sanctions
leads to stand
off or
“throwing
shade” like in
a high school
cafeteria,
said that
North
Korea doesn't
go to the UN
cafeteria.
But
Inner City
Press has seen
North Korean
diplomats
there, and in
the
North Lawn
building
coffee shop,
chatting up
Security
Council
members. It is
Rice and the
US delegation
who are rarely
seen in the
UN cafeteria.
Not to take a
joke too
literally.
Kim
Sook, it must
be said, has
thus far not
held as many
question and
answer
stakeouts as
Pakistan's
Masood Khan
did in
January.
The Free
UN
Coalition for
Access,
when Kim Sook
held his
beginning of
the
month press
conference,
urged him to
follow Masood
Khan's lead
and
take questions
after closed
door
consultations
of the
Council. There
are still two
weeks to go.
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