Well, well, well. It looks like a South Korean is in strong positioning to take over as the next UN secretary general. Ban Ki-Moon will replace Kofi Annan after a formal vote next Monday.

I also read about him in this week's New Yorker and it concerns me that Ban Ki-Moon was hesitant to call Rwanda a "genocide," which then makes me wonder how he'll tread around Darfur. Of course, he'll have a full plate with Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Lebanon...