Posted on 02/02/2006 5:31:35 PM PST by HAL9000
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday North Korean IQs are feared to be falling due to prolonged malnutrition."The people have had so little food over much of their lives," Rumsfeld said at a National Press Club luncheon in raising North Korea as an example as to why he said political and economic freedom is needed.
"There's a concern that their IQs are going down because of malnutrition and insufficient diet," Rumsfeld said. "People in the North Korean military...are 4 foot 10 inches (145 centimeters), these are men, and less than 100 pounds (45 kilograms)."
"That's a tragedy," he said, blaming it on the "repressive political system and a command economy" in North Korea.
"Any system that is not a political and economic free system, I think, is unlikely to give (its people) the kinds of opportunities that they can have in a free system," he said.
Referring to a satellite picture of the Korean Peninsula, Rumsfeld said South Korea "is just filled with lights and electricity and energy...but not a light except in Pyongyang" in the North Korea.
Rumsfeld called it sad and a shame that "basic" business in North Korea is illicit.
"They're counterfeiting U.S. dollars. They're selling illicit drugs. They are selling missile technologies to several countries. They've demonstrated willingness to proliferate almost any military capability they're able to develop, and that's their life," he said.
You can bet they feed the soldiers and party officials.
Damn, it's almost as if the democart party has been infiltrated by North Koreans.
But here in flyover country, we like hearing the truth.
You the man, Rummy!!
The difference is stark. I wonder what ends the North Korean regieme first, war or starvation.
If they're going to attack, they'd better do it before they're down to less than a foot. After that, small predatory animals will become a threat to them.
'Honey, I shrunk the North Korean Army!'
And thier IQ's weren'too high to begin with.
Good Lord, that's so sad. For the people, that is, not the government.
Some workers' paradise!
Man, it must suck to be from a country where the men are shorter than little Filipino or Mexican peasant women.
I thought he was four six. What do I know...
LOL
The Tomchurian Canidate.
Kim's mighty army on the attack.
They look skinny to me.
They are skinny but fit enough to fight or more usually keep control of the masses.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight - rather the size of the fight in the dog ...
Lower IQ = easier led and brainwashed.
ping
Quick, somebody check our public school lunch programs...
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