The flag of the United Nations flew at half-mast Wednesday at the world's body headquarters in New York and its Geneva offices to mark the funeral for late North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.Choi Soung-ah, a spokeswoman for UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, said it was customary practice for the UN flag to be lowered to half-mast upon the deaths of leaders of UN member states.
| No matter how tyrannical and evil... |
"Sadly, that message is at serious risk of being blurred today," UN Watch executive director Hillel Neuer said. "Today should be a time for the UN to show solidarity with the victims -- the millions of North Koreans brutalized by Kim's merciless policies of starvation and oppression -- and not with the perpetrators."
| I'm surprised they said anything. Usually this is something progressive NGOs just hope will go away without notice... |