Word: watchdogging
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...More startling, perhaps, a government watchdog's report last Thursday indicated that the landmark summit between Kim Jong Il and South Korean President Kim Dae Jung may have been bought and paid for by Seoul. President Kim's crowning achievement?his 2000 Nobel Peace Prize?may thus be tainted by charges of checkbook diplomacy. After a three-month investigation, the Board of Audit and Inspection of Korea declared that, just a week before the summit, $332 million was transferred from the state-run Korea Development Bank into Hyundai Merchant Marine, a subsidiary of the Hyundai conglomerate, which has connections...
When North Korea confessed to having a secret nuclear-weapons program, reopened a mothballed reactor, threw out inspectors and disconnected the monitoring cameras, officials from the watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) met in Vienna and decided not to report all this misbehavior to the U.N. Security Council for action. But last week Pyongyang raised the stakes even higher, and now the IAEA may have no choice. When President Kim Jong Il declared that North Korea would become the first nation ever to pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and might test some new missiles as well, the pretense...
...Dispute Pyongyang announced that it was withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) in a major escalation of the crisis surrounding its nuclear activities. It claimed the move was in response to U.S. aggression and also rejected a demand by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog, to readmit inspectors expelled last month. Pyongyang is widely suspected of violating the NPT, which bars the development of nuclear weapons. Efforts continued to find a diplomatic solution to the dispute, with Washington offering to hold direct talks with North Korea, but only on the subject of how Pyongyang should...
...money will help pay for free primary school education and better access to health care. "Kibaki has promised to declare his wealth. That is not the whole remedy but it shows that he is serious," says John Githongo, executive director of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International, an anticorruption watchdog. First, though, Kibaki must clean up his party, an amalgam of 15 groups under the banner of the National Rainbow Coalition. It is stacked with former KANU members, many of them accused of the corruption Kibaki promises to fight. The new President was born in the shadow of Mount Kenya...
...wealthy tribes have so much political power that they can flout the rights of neighboring communities, poorer tribes and even some of their own members. Their political clout also helps them protect a chaotic gaming system that has served them well, one that is characterized by overburdened and underfunded watchdog agencies, a mishmash of regulations and a lack of financial accountability. As a result, Washington often ignores the needs of Native Americans in distress while assisting those who least need help...