Posted on 08/26/2006 8:43:54 PM PDT by jdm
Edited on 08/26/2006 8:45:51 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
It's getting tough to be a North Korean banker these days. First Washington shuts down your Macau accounts; then China, an old friend, follows suit. Now even Vietnam and Mongolia are cooperating. Who's next?
Since the U.S. Treasury designated Banco Delta Asia, a Macau bank long used by North Korea, as a "primary money-laundering concern" last September, banks world-wide have awakened to the dangers of being tarred by association with Kim Jong Il's regime. Hanoi and Ulan Bator don't even boast big financial centers, but we're told they've seen the sense in acting on U.S. information.
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your tagline. I'm choking.
Poor Li'l Kim.
This keeps up and he is going to have to cut back on his Cognac purchases.... (He literally buys enough French Brandy every year to feed 10,000 of his 'peasants' for the entire year....)
Yet they starve while he swills the expensive stuff.
I think China is the important mention. Kim exists at China's whim.
Sounds like he's getting pretty "ronrey"...
Was that a great movie? Or what?
To be honest, I never saw it. But I've heard that line often enough (not to mention the song "America! F*** Yeah!).
Hilarious.
More than hilarious, amazing. Maybe a little, you know, "uneven", but trust me, amazing. That's what I look for in a move, BTW.
On my list when it comes out on "On Demand"!
China Cut Oil Shipment to N. Korea (and invites Chia Head for a talk)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1690356/posts
Just great. The Chinese and Arabs are watching this so when they have bought enough of US Bonds with our money, they'll know what to do to take us down.
Sorry to be so pessimistic, but I'm a realist. Our Great Society II is a tad bit too expensive.
Hell, that's already happened many years ago.
Do you guess that's why GWB is seen holding hands in the Rose Garden with Saudi princes, heard repeating that "Islam is the Religion of Peace", and we tolerate China having veto power on the UN security council?
Just a few things I wonder about on nights I can't sleep.
ping
Yours is a hoot as well.
ROTFLMAO!
Mr. Asher suggests exhorting foreign governments to crack down on North Korea's long-standing abuse of diplomatic privileges. Its envoys in several countries have been caught smuggling everything from dollars to drugs.
It is tough being a N. Korean diplomat. For a privilege of escaping the fate of eating grass gruel and tree barks, he has to push drugs, spread counterfeit dollar bills, and doing all kinds of outrageous errands using a diplomatic pouch.
N. Korean diplomats are relegated to two-bit petty criminals.
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