More on the latest crazy scene at the UN, in which the UN Ethics Office comes down on the side of a UN Development Program staffer — the former chief of UNDP operations in North Korea — who was fired for whistleblowing, and the UNDP tells the Ethics Office to go take a hike. (See confidential UN memo in post below).

Now Ban Ki-Moon has to decide whether he backs his own Ethics Office, or gives in to the UN’s wayward flagship agency, the UNDP (whose number two man, Ad Melkert, was so deeply concerned earlier this year about the ethics of former World Bank Chairman Paul Wolfowitz). My suggestion, in a column for NRO today, is that Ban give a job to the fired whistleblower, Artjon “Tony” Shkurtaj, either as special liaison between Ban and the UNDP, or as a special investigator into the UNDP.