Seoul Hopes to Build U.N. Headquarters, Peace Park Near North Korea’s DMZ

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Regional analysts and journalists participating in the conference where Mrs. Kyng-won spoke of the initiative were divided over its potential viability — and some were outright critical of the United Nation’s relevance to Ms. Park’s strategy for easing North-South tensions.

The last thing that the world needs is another U.N. office in Seoul,” said Claudia Rosett, a journalist-in-residence at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who appeared on the panel at the conference in Seoul.

“It is a recipe for a massive enduring boondoggle that in the end will probably turn it against the purpose for which it was created,” said Mrs. Rosett, who has written extensively on corruption at the U.N. “The problem is, when you set up a U.N. office, there’s no real control over it. … Think animal farm, George Orwell, not democratic bodies.”
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