As
DPRK Meeting
Starts, Battle
of Quips &
Silence, Kim
Won-soo &
Feltman
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 12 –
If North
Korea's
nuclear test
crossed the
red line,
Tuesday
morning at the
UN Security
Council was a
sort of
red carpet:
Ambassadors
stopped and
delivered one
liners to the
assembled
press.
Western
ambassadors,
that is. China
was
represented by
its Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Wang, who was
hardly
questioned as
he went in.
France's
Permanent
Representative
Gerard Araud,
on the other
hand, when
asked
“strong
statement?”
stopped and
said, “I hope
there will be
something more
than a
statement.”
UK
Deputy
Permanent
Representative
Philip Parham
said he hopes
for a
strong
condemnation.
Russia's
Permanent
Representative
Vitaly Churkin
said only,
“We'll see.”
US
Ambassador
Susan Rice,
with two
spokespeople,
took the
comedic route,
telling the
press, “glad
you all could
wake up
early.” Beyond
that, she said
nothing.
But
scheduled to
brief the
Security
Council was
long time US
State
Department
official
Jeffrey
Feltman.
Another UN
official who
went
into the
Council before
the meeting
started was
Kim Won-soo,
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon's
senior
adviser.
Kim
Won-soo's
title however,
under Ban's
mobility plan,
is now “Change
Management.”
What does that
have to do
with North
Korea?
Then
again, Kim
Won-soo did
travel to
North Korea
with Feltman's
predecessor
Lynn Pascoe.
UN insiders
wonder: where
is Bob Orr? He
bridges the
gap, an
American
immersed in
the Korean
world. Watch
this
site.
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