PRAISE FOR NORTH KOREA (Sub Title)

Reuters ^ | Jan 01, 2003 | Charles Aldinger and Nadim Ladki

[optimistically_conservative]

In an editorial, Iraqi newspaper Babel, owned by President Saddam Hussein's son Uday, urged Arabs Wednesday to learn from North Korea's resistance over its nuclear standoff with Washington to help put a halt to U.S. threats of war.

Tensions between the United States and North Korea have escalated since North Korea announced it would expel U.N. nuclear arms inspectors and reopen a nuclear reactor frozen since 1994 under a non-proliferation agreement.

"Korea is holding on to its right to posses a technology that American leaders used to wipe out whole Japanese cities and it is still being used by the current American administration to blackmail states and force them to obey its diktats," Babel said, calling Pyongyang's position a "brave stand." U.S. army officials said the 1st and 3rd Brigades of the 3rd Infantry Division would soon begin moving to join the 2nd brigade of more than 4,000 troops, now training in Kuwait.

[samtheman]

North Korean timely disruption of Global Stability...

...bought and paid for with Iraqi oil revenues.

(With a special bonus in the envelope for a job well done.)

[Guillermo]

Soon the rest of the world will fall in line...

I KNEW that the US would be blamed for the actions of Leftist North Korea, and we have been.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Reading that headline, I'm actually surprised it wasn't Senator Patty Murray chiming in again...

[Sabertooth]

[canuck_conservative]

Just nuke the Four-Eyed Nerd and be done with it.

[optimistically_conservative]

"Korea is holding on to its right to posses a technology ..."

I find that an interesting phrase from a country that claims not to have WMD technology or a right to it, about a country that signed an agreement and international treaty not to develop or proliferate it.

[cake_crumb]

"I KNEW that the US would be blamed for the actions of Leftist North Korea, and we have been."

Yep. It's a given: the United States is to blame for the actions of every mad dictator in the world. Most likely, they blame the US whever (mad dictator's name here) submits to bodily function and make a loud, embarrassing noise in company which might be offended....

[kcvl]

"What's the point of having this superb military that you're always talking about if we can't use it?"

Madeleine K. Albright Interview on CBS's "Face the Nation" Washington, DC, March 28, 1999

Colin Powell who's later response was "I thought I would have an aneuryism."

[OReilly]

Re the paper, the Babel:

Babel said, calling Pyongyang's position a "brave stand."

...and one that only cost my father a pittance

Mercedes are cheaper than tanks and trompe l'oeil is the cheapest of all.

[OReilly]

Mercedes are cheaper than tanks and trompe l'oeil is the cheapest of all.

Saddam has been watching our movies again... He has come up with trompe l'oeil threats that he can inflate on a moments notice, for a pittance.

[Paulie]

Oh, now I understand why N. Korea thinks they can push us around. Kim Jong il probably figures that, if the best the State Dept. can do is Madaline Halfbright, we're probably in sorry shape!

[Mr. Morals]

It's Pat!!! :-D

[OReilly]

Kim Jong il probably figures that, if the best the State Dept. can do is Madaline Halfbright, we're probably in sorry shape!

Was it in N Korea that she was mistaken for a Hotel Maid and was asked to hurry up and get the hotel room cleaned up?

[vannrox]

North Korea didn't count on Bush.

When they announced that they defied our treaties with them and were going to get rid of the UN monitoring equipment and that they had a nuclear bomb...

They exped Bush to act like Clinton...

He didn't...

Instead... He said OK,
I'm cutting off your FREE OIL that we have been GIVING you.

They were stunned!

Within hours, Clinton and Carter called their friends in the major newspapers to protest...

But it was too late. Bush wasn't about to be told what to do by Bow-Tie wearing nit-wits in a ivory tower.

[optimistically_conservative]

I agree that Bush corrected a misguided policy toward North Korea. One that cost the US and Japan billions of $$$ to extort empty promises and prop up an evil regime. It was the right thing to do and long overdue. I'm amazed that there are so many bleeding heart liberals in power politically and in journalism that think appeasing and turning a blind eye brings any long lasting peace. But then, perhaps we're seeing a trend where the counter-culture mis-creants are finally being seen for what they are as the US turns more conservative and liberal media loses share.

End Clinton's Aid to North Korea

North Korea Economy

Exports: $520 million (f.o.b., 1999 est.)

Exports - commodities: minerals, metallurgical products, manufactures (including armaments); agricultural and fishery products

Exports - partners: Japan 28%, South Korea 21%, China 5%, Germany 4%, Russia 1% (1995)

Imports: $960 million (c.i.f., 1999 est.)

Imports - commodities: petroleum, coking coal, machinery and equipment; consumer goods, grain

Imports - partners: China 33%, Japan 17%, Russia 5%, South Korea 4%, Germany 3% (1995)

Debt - external: $12 billion (1996 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: $NA; note - an estimated $200 million to $300 million in humanitarian aid from US, South Korea, Japan, and EU in 1997 plus much additional aid from the UN and non-governmental organizations; substantial continuing humanitarian aid, 1998-2000