UN chief in unprecedented visit to Pentagon

Analette Abesamis

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Ban Ki-moon became the first UN secretary general to visit the Pentagon on April 18, holding talks with US military leaders on the crisis over North Korea and a planned peacekeeping mission in Mali. Ban had asked for the meeting amid mounting tensions on the Korean peninsula and drastic threats from the regime in Pyongyang. His talks with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, focused on North Korea as well as planned or potential UN missions in Mali, Somalia and Syria.

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