Here is a great update about the United Nation’s Development Program’s North Korea corruption scandal:

You might suppose that with inquiries underway into the scandals surrounding the UN Development Program activities in tyrannies such as Burma and North Korea, the UNDP would be at pains to preserve its records for investigators. After all, when the UNDP Cash-for-Kim scandal broke in January, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon promised to get to the bottom of it, and the UNDP’s number two man, Ad Melkert, promised full transparency, saying “You ain’t seen nothing yet.”

Guess again. Shades of the grand shredding that went on three years ago in Kofi Annan’s executive suite as the UN’s Oil-for-Food inquiry revved up, it turns out the UNDP, flagship agency of the UN, has been quietly arranging to scrap computer equipment that might just contain some awfully interesting records. Internal UNDP documents show that in September the UNDP approved an arrangement to dispose of a batch of used computer computer equipment, including 11 servers, 4 scanners and 6 printers — all on grounds that the items were bought “in or before 1999,” could not be sold on the used market, and “it would take a lot of our resources to donate this equipment.” See item #2 in this UNDP document, and check out this “Headquarters Request for Asset Disposal…” [Claudia Rosett]

Make sure to read the whole thing.  This corruption scandal which was a major money maker for Kim Jong-il first broke all the way back in January.  Now almost a year later UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who promised to conduct a full investigation has done nothing, but aid the cover up.  Additionally the negligence of the media to cover this issue is just as the disgusting as the UN’s current cover up operation.  Is there a scandal at the UN the media will ever cover?