Pack up, UN

Captain Ed:

The United Nations faces another embarrassing scandal, as the New York Sun's Benny Avni reports today. Despite its earlier denials, UN officials not only knew about North Korea's counterfeiting operation -- it helped Pyongyang hide the evidence in Turtle Bay safes:

As federal investigators examine how the leading U.N. agency in North Korea illegally kept 35 counterfeit American $100 bills in its possession for 12 years, documents indicate that more officials were aware of the existence of the fake currency — and earlier — than the agency has reported.

For TWELVE years! Wonder if they spirited some of the bills into the US in diplomatic pouches. Maybe Kofi needed them to pay the rent on his US-taxpayer subsidized housing.

Pack your bags UN. Try to find a more hospitable country. Maybe some country on the UN Human Rights Commission. Or maybe Iran, hmm? They take a dim view of Western-style investigations there. You might be safe. Might have to forgo the diplomatic champagne lunches.

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UPDATE: And let's not forget about this travesty.