On the recordMay 20, 1998
Let me just read again a brief paragraph that the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) emphasized: Choi Young-Jin, the Korean diplomat who is the U.N.'s Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping, recently admitted that the U.N. remains committed to establishing a standing army. Now get that, the U.N. remains committed to establishing a standing army. The U.N.'s official spokesman later tried to clarify what Mr. Choi meant to say, that this rapidly deployable headquarters is an interim step, he said, since a standing army is too ambitious for the time being. In other words, one of the leading diplomats, the Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping said that the U.N. is committed to a standing army and, of course, he went too far and so he tried to explain it and then he said, well, that is too ambitious a step for right now.
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