There is Ban Ki-moon, doing exactly what he was previously paid to do as a South Korean diplomat: negotiating the peace in the Korean Peninsula. The announcement comes just after Pentagon has supposedly released a report confirming North Korea’s capability to put a nuclear device on a missile. Yet I don’t believe that the US intelligence community simply changed its opinion in a matter of days. It takes more than a day to change one’s military, so it seems improbable that our dear friends from the Pentagon missed something in the last weeks of escalating tension.
(CNN) – Delivering a direct message to North Korea’s young leader Thursday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Kim Jong Un to focus less on making threats against the United States, and more on improving conditions for his own people.
“I would strongly ask him to, first of all, refrain from taking any such provocative measures, which is clearly in violation against the Security Council resolution and against the expectation of the international community,” Ban said during an exclusive appearance on CNN’s “The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer.”
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