S. Korean foreign minister was unlikely candidate for top U.N. post: Ban Ki-moon believed he was the right man at right place, right time.(PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES)

San Diego Business Journal | October 23, 2006| | Copyright

It's amazing how just a little bit of time (and more than a little competence) can alter the odds. If anyone had told you a year ago that the next U.N. secretary-general was going to be a Korean, you'd have quickly wagered against it.

Korea, after all, remains brutally divided, and peninsular tensions are today running high, so proposing a Korean national to replace the exiting Kofi Annan would have seemed a fool's gamble.

"A Korean is not going to be the head of the U.N.," a widely respected Japanese diplomat flatly predicted just six months ago. In fact, ...

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