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The quiet man with the world on his shoulders

Ban Ki-Moon, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of the Republic of Korea, will be inaugurated as the 8th Secretary General of the United Nations (UNSG) on 1 January, 2007, just fifteen years after South Korea was admitted to the UN. Despite the political division of the peninsular and South Korea’s strong alliance with the United States, Ban was selected as UNSG with the overwhelming support of the 192 member countries.

Ban, aged 62 and a Harvard graduate, has been an outsta…

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