Posted on 05/29/2004 7:15:24 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Ping!
Sorry, it didn't.
The US media was too busy trying to bring down the government via the Iraqi "prison abuse" scandal.
Uhhh... So if the US, thru the UN, takes responsibility for famine relief, North Norea won't have to divert any funds from their gigantic and important weapons programs to actually feed their own people?
I couldn't help but be moved by this piece. (It reminded me of something written by a former journalist who was in South Korea during the Korean War.)
As always, it's the average person who suffers... while the fools at the top go on being foolish.
Ping!
Did we all buy into the idea that this was a coalition operation? Could it be a warning: this can happen to your trains, too?
That is right. Somehow, taking care of ordinary N. Korean people has become responsibility of outsiders, while N. Korean regime has developed new mobile medium range missiles with the range of 3,000-4,000 km.
The problem is that "we" care more about the plight of North Koreans than do their rulers. North Korea's hunger and poverty situation would be solved in an instant if their rulers would only say: "We were wrong, socialism doesn't work, its a bust...sorry! We'll let the ROK take over for now". But no, these fiends have to cling to power, and we enable them by feeding their populace so the fiends can have more missles and tanks in their parade.
Maybe this tragedy will jolt Kim IL awake.
5.56mm
accident right...ha!
All I can really think of when I think and read of the issues in North Korea, and Kim Il Jong... is the silent suffering of the people of that country...to be so tied down under that cult of personality, and to have the well being of the country subjugated to that madman it harkens back to that days of Stalin... Of course like father like son. I just pray that some day that North Korea sees the light of a new day and this will all end.
Yeah, that is certainly a possibility, though we may not be able to confirm or disprove it for some time.:)
N. Korea is one giant penal colony, where the Borg's slogan, "Resistance is futile!", is rammed into people's mind at all times.
You don't believe the explosion of those warehoused missiles being sold to Syria was an accident?
yeah, typical of a communist state.... I would hate to be the commies when a majority of that population finds out that it has been intentionally starved by their 'dear leader'
I think Kim's days are numbered, but that country will be in turmoil after he dies because there does not appear to be a person to fill that void...
North Korea wouldn't divert it's money from the weapons program anyway, they would just let their people starve. Any aid attempts in North Korea is like trying to empty an ocean with a teaspoon. The problem is political, look at the prosperity of South Korea and ask yourself why, just over an imaginary line, there is such hunger and poverty.
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