North Korea Demands Aid Before Disarmament

Fox News ^ | November 12, 2005 | AP

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BEIJING — North Korea on Saturday stood by its demand for aid in exchange for shutting down a plutonium-producing reactor, insisting that it would not act until Washington offers concessions.

[stm]

We've got your concessions right here.....

[mewzilla]

He's so ronery.

[clee1]

Fark 'em. Let 'em starve, or gather the nerve to oust their leadership.

[sgtbono2002]

Nuclear Blackmail. If N Korea would open its borders and start acting like they had good sense there would be no need for Aid. There are plenty of companies who would go there for cheap labor. What the N Koreans are looking for is money to keep their people in chains.

[mewzilla]

...gather the nerve to oust their leadership.

Kinda hard to do when you're starving, though we can hope the military grows a brain.

[Caipirabob]

OK, a few cases of this stuff should aid them.

[PositiveCogins]

Peanut Head Carter to the rescue again?

[Joe Boucher]

You have to know that there are military leaders from N. Korea that have been to say Russia or China and seen how they have so much better conditions to live under.
Why is it that some general doesn't lead the North military to rebel? To put a stop to the carnage. They would be a hero for all time in their country.

[BTCM]

Seems like the Klintoon mis-administration went down that road.

[mewzilla]

Maybe because if Kim's goons don't get him the Chinese will? If the Chinese ever decide they want Kim gone, Kim will be gone. Maybe the military's afraid of the Chinese, too.

[Fenris6]

"demand for aid in exchange for shutting down a plutonium-producing reactor"

LOL. Didn't we already go down this path once? Korea cheated. And are our congress-critters spineless enough to reinforce failure?

[6SJ7]

I figure in 20 years, seeing the way California is going with its 'non reform' of state government, we might see a headline like this...

2025, SACRAMENTO — California on Saturday stood by its demand for aid in exchange for shutting down a plutonium-producing reactor, insisting that it would not act until Washington offers concessions.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Wrong way round - disarmament first, aid later.

[clee1]

I disagree. If I and my family are starving due to the actions of a totalitarian regime, I'm gonna find a way to get a weapon and I'm gonna bust whatever heads are necessary to find food.

If enough people preferred a bullet over starvation, they'd overthrow their domestic tyrants.

[mewzilla]

If enough people preferred a bullet over starvation, they'd overthrow their domestic tyrants.

Ever had any personal experience with a totalitarian state?

[clee1]

Oh come on...

[stm]

The more you look at this, the more pathetic it becomes. What these morons are saying, in essence, is "Give us money and aid or we will spend money we don't have on nukes"

In essence "We could give a sh*t less about our starving and impoverished people, we want more expensive toys that go bang!"

[LibLieSlayer]

My exact thought as I was reading this!

LLS

[Irish_Thatcherite]

Exactly!

[taxed2death]

It's all about the money. You're going to see a slew of turd-werld craphole countries adopt the same program....initiate a nuke program and extort money from the US taxpayer.