As I read of this latest scandal, I remembered that you wrote a number of articles for the WSJ back in 2002/3/4 on North Korea: http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110002617 and http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/cRosett/?id=110001835. The questions you raised and the points you made then have been revalidated (yet again), although with a different UN agency.

This latest scandal shows our State Department representatives at the US Mission to the United Nations have been worse than derelict in their oversight of the spending of our taxes, despite your warnings 5 years ago. They would surely have taken a much closer interest if it was their own money. In fact Congress also seems to have been incredibly lax in overseeing how State spends our money through an organisation which has been proven to be corrupt to the very top. State have been spending $5.3Bn a year on the UN with no oversight – what percentage have they spent on auditing and accounting for this money? Where are the audit reports and why are they not publicly available?

Ms Rosett you lead the pack on exposing the UN and this latest revelation just shows how right you are (and were back in 2002). How many of the other UN agencies are involved in North Korea, how much are they donating to that evil regime and why has State continued to fund them? Is the GAO involved? Please tell us who is responsible (both at the UN and State Department) so we can call for action against them. Responsible politicians and diplomats need to be held to account by us voters.