Korean Nominated as Secretary General, Defiant DPRK Conducts Nuclear Test
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2006
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The UN makes its first moves to nominate South Korea's Ban Ki-moon as its new Secretary General, a significant choice in terms of his possible diplomatic influence with North Korea. Meantime, the global community reacts to North Korea's claims to have conducted its first nuclear test. Diana Nyad guest hosts.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International, and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.8 | North Korea claims to have conducted its first nuclear test. |
| 0:11.6 | The Global Community reacts. |
| 0:16.6 | I'm Diane and IAD sitting in for Warren Olney, and this is To the point from Public Radio International, a daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:25.5 | North Korea says it has successfully conducted its first underground nuclear test, an action that has reportedly brought joy to the people and the army of North Korea. |
| 0:34.9 | Reactions from the international community are quite the opposite. From China |
| 0:38.9 | to Japan to the U.S., there is immediate concern over North Korea's nuclear stance. Also on to the |
| 0:44.9 | point today, the U.N. makes its first moves to nominate South Korea's Ban Ki-moon as its new |
| 0:51.3 | Secretary General, a significant choice in terms of Bands possible diplomatic |
| 0:56.2 | influence with North Korea. First, here's the news. |
| 1:00.8 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio |
| 1:06.5 | International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and |
| 1:11.7 | Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. I'm Diane and Iad sitting in for Warren Allney today, back with |
| 1:16.7 | To the Point from PRI. Today, the United Nations Security Council offers a nomination for the |
| 1:22.7 | next Secretary General, South Korea's Ban Ki-moon. The General Assembly will vote this week to approve Ban Ki-moon, |
| 1:29.3 | who would take over for Kofi Annan on the first of the year. What fine lines, especially in terms of |
| 1:35.0 | nuclear negotiations with North Korea, would the new Secretary General have to walk? Along with the |
| 1:40.4 | nomination of Ban Ki-moon, the news of North Korea's nuclear test dominated this morning's agenda. |
| 1:46.0 | The 15-member Security Council spent a brisk 30 minutes in universally condemning the test. |
| 1:52.1 | President Bush issued a statement this morning in response to North Korea's actions. |
| 1:55.7 | The North Korean regime remains one of the world's leading proliferator of missile technology, |
| 2:04.5 | including transfers to Iran and Syria. The transfer of nuclear weapons are material by |
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