Posted on 10/09/2006 3:52:07 PM PDT by MadIvan
Caption: "Herro, world - Hold this!"
Exactly, several talking head today including Rush and Boortz both claimed that they are now eating bark in N Korea and trying their best to migrate into china and russia for work, beyond desperate!! The last generation of N Koreans have actually "shrunk" two inches from malnutrition! It is worse that Africa if you can believe that. LIL Kim needs to be taken out and soon.
***Repeatedly, North Korea has stepped back from its nuclear programme. In 1994 it did so after a deal with the Clinton Administration by which it froze its nuclear reactor in return for fuel oil and the promise of safe reactors incapable of producing weapons-grade plutonium***
Where does this so-called journalist POS get his information from.
Does he really believe that Kim stopped his nuclear program and only took it up after Bush was elected?????
If he does he is the most stupid POS ever to hold a pen.
Just another Bush bashing emefer.
He has no people.
He has only slaves. Those with uniforms are fed. Those without starve.
As usual.
http://images.google.com/images?q=starving+north+koreans&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images Pics of starving norks.
I'm not sure the Peoples Republic would cotton to the Japanese and the Manchu-kwo stomping around on the Peninsula. That harkens back to some ugly days not so long ago, days that Mao and the Glorious Revolution exploited to their considerable advantage.
But I would certainly think the Russians and the South Koreans, as well as the "co-prosperity sphere" you mentioned, could bring some pressure to bear, possibly even with China's surreptitious support. It could be a good imperial move for China to annex North Korea, depose Kim, and bring a Khan-like peace to the region.
I don't know that Japan or Taiwan would care; North Korea in the hands of a raving lunatic like Kim is more dangerous than another province of China.
The Los Angeles Times did a long series of articles a few months ago about daily life in North Korea, based on reports from North Koreans who had escaped to China. It is one scary place.
Ghost Highways
North Korea is a land of vast motorways, some with as many as 10 lanes. But they are always empty. Very few people own cars. Pedestrians and cyclists zig-zag across them as they are so unused to traffic.
Digging for victory
On a frosty day, peasants cluster on a remote country lane to dig at the ice caking roads and streams so they can access the mud underneath. Mud is valuable as a fertiliser. Throughout the seasons, piles of mud and even human manure will be applied onto fields in order to make the crops grow better.
Red flags and banners bearing government propaganda slogans dot these fields. Their motto is: 'Dig for victory'. In this case they seem to be digging for sheer survival.
How long could the North Koreans last in a war in the economic shape they are in?
If the US, S. Korea, Japan and most other major powers just cut North Korea off completely it would just wither away and die.
China won't be able to send NK enough to save it.
We should pretty much just ignore North Korea. Monitoring their shipping to make sure they don't sell WMD and missiles, but other than that we should just cut em' off completely and ignore them. That means NO MORE humanitarian aid of any kind. No more heating oil, no more food aid, no more fertilizer. Just cut em' off and let em' rot away.
Oh, that makes sense. So if we insisted that they only be half-disarmed instead, this would have slowed things down how?
Be nice.
If it were up to me, I'd have a bunch of brainiacs researching a nice way to kill him (Deniability not an issue). Give me something with a 90% chance and relatively low collateral damage, and I'd go for it. If somebody gave me any cr@p I'd point out that, technically, we're still at war and that this was my notice that the ceasefire was over.
Dunno if that would save Seoul from the artillery parks just north of the parallel, though. Have to wonder who'll follow in his tracks and what they'll do be come the next (fill in the blank) Leader.
But government sponsored assinations are frowned upon. So Kim Jung Il is going to die in a nice palace of old age.
Hehehe, ya, I read about the North Koreans keeping the food aid trains. I wonder if that is really true?
China fears a unified Korea, but if everyone else cut North Korea off, China just wouldn't be able to prop them up on their own.
North Korea just has to be allowed to wither away and die. It is sad that the North Korean people will die in their millions, but at the end of the day, people are responsible for their own government. It is not my problem that, regardless of how brainwashed they may be, the North Korean people never rose against their Juche masters.
We should have marched to the Yalu in 1951.
After he dies, that is when his real punishment will begin.
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