Posted on 09/05/2006 1:20:58 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus
LONDON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - The chairman of British investment advisory firm Koryo Asia, which has bought North Korea's Daedong Credit Bank, said on Tuesday it was pressing the U.S. to ease sanctions against the isolated communist country.
Colin McAskill confirmed to Reuters a newspaper report that Koryo Asia had taken over Daedong Credit Bank. Koryo is also an adviser to the Chosun Fund, which invests in North Korean assets.
"We will take on the U.S. over the sanctions stand-off. They've had it too much their own way without anyone questioning what they are putting out," McAskill said in a report in the Financial Times on Tuesday.
Asked later by Reuters about the reported remarks, McAskill said, "That is true," but declined to comment further.
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Simple answer to this one: No.
Go roll around naked in your dirty money and STFU!
I would think this is farce if I didn't know any better. While NK continues to print supernotes, this jacka$$ asks for us to drop sanctions and lift banking restrictions? Is he on crack? Sounds like another money whore to me.
He doesn't want Kim Jong-Il to be so ronery.
They bought a North Korean bank ? Pray tell, what did they buy ?
Net assets: 47 cents and a "Henry Wallace for President" button.
McAskill, the posterboy for Eurotrash, has been fiddling around with North Korea for nearly thirty years. He is considered the George Galloway of Asia.
Wasn't Galloway this just incredible British shill for Soviet disinformation and propaganda? Like C.P. Snow and some of the older ones from the 50's, like Izzy Stone. (And it is said, Kiwi Peter Arnett, who did Soviet agitprop from a MSM TV-news platform for years.)
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