Posted on 03/12/2010 4:24:09 PM PST by bamahead
He bought them cars, weapons, expensive furniture and the finest food –all while their people starved.
Col. Kim Jong Ryul says he spent two decades traveling to European cities on shopping spree-missions for North Korea's Supreme Leader Kim il Sung, and then later for his son, Kim Jong Il.
Helping to lift the shroud on North Korea’s brutal and mysterious regime, the German-speaking Kim claims to have bought luxury cars, carpets and gold-plated handguns with cash sent from Pyongyang. He says Mercedes was the favorite brand of the leadership, but they also liked Lincolns and Cadillacs. He also obtained furnishings for the leaders' numerous villas, and he bought food, food, and more food.
That’s what really got to Kim. “People were dying of starvation,” he told Fox News, “and they were eating food from all over the world.”
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His assessment of Kim Jong Il: “He is human. But the political ideas inside his head are of the devil.”
Kim dismisses Pyongyang’s nuclear saber- rattling as “propaganda,” and he has a message for the U.S. in how to deal with the North Korean regime: “Destroy it.”
(Excerpt) Read more at liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com ...
The North Koreans having a few nukes is like a man having a pistol and a few bullets...
you must be very careful about what you intend to shoot at...
considering we have many, many men with many, many machine guns and a sh!tload of bullets...
on the down side, North Korea is like an EDP (emotionally disturbed person) and there is no doubt they will shoot something...
just because they can!!
Sort of the reason a dog climbs a mountain...
because it is there!!
How is that different from zero and wife partying in the White House as people lose everything? Well, we’re not starving. Yet. But zero’s certainly working on it...
You just wait. A made-up water crisis is on the way. And a food crisis to follow.
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