Hearing: US Did Not Block Re-Election of UN Bureaucrat Despite Claims of IT Transfers to North Korea, Other Wrongdoing

The head of a U.N. agency which gets a significant proportion of its budget from U.S. patent applicants transferred U.S.-origin computer equipment with dual-use potential to North Korea, and cracked down harshly on whistleblowers who sought to expose his behavior, U.S. lawmakers were told Wednesday. Despite his alleged actions, the Obama administration allowed him to be re-elected in 2014 for a new six-year term, they heard.