Wealthy N. Korean Women Having Milk Bath... Lavish Shopping Spree (the rich and obscene)

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Wealthy N. Korean Women Having Milk Bath... Lavish Shopping Sprees

AWSJ, "Wearing a Kim Il-sung lapel pin, and buying a Toyota at Chinese dealership" [2006-12-18 12:05 ]

On a pier at the shore of Yalu River in Shinuiju, a privileged (?) N. Korean woman waits for a ferry inside a luxury car. /The Daily NK

Despite the passage of UN sanction against N. Korea at UN Security Council last Oct., N. Korea's elites are indulged in lavish shopping sprees in China, according to Asian Wall St. Journal (AWSJ) on Dec. 17.

Included among the list of items under sanction are luxury goods for N. Korean elites, but Dandong, China, right across the border from N. Korea, is becoming a popular destination for wealthy N. Koreans, according to the paper.

N. Koreans wearing a Kim Il-sung lapel pin are frequently seen shopping at the hotels and shopping districts in Dandong. As more N. Korean customers are coming, some stores put up signboards in Korean advertising computers, karaoke machines as well as anti-impotence drugs such as Viagra and Cyalis.

According to those at Xin-Yi-Bai Department Store in Dandong, N. Korean women come to the store almost every day and buy gold necklace and other jewelry items, and also enjoy milk bath and massage at a spa overlooking the Yalu River.

A female sales clerk attending a counter selling L'Oreal cosmetics at the department store said that a body cream is a real hit among N. Korean women, who believe that it would make their body slender.

Another salesman said, "N. Koreans buy new cars at a Toyoda dealership near Dandong Custom's Office. For example, a man recently brought $50,000 in cash, and bought a luxury sedan." Those N. Koreans who come to China frequently would go ahead and buy an apartment worth nearly $100,000.

Until last Oct. (of this year,) China's fur export to N. Korea rose by seven fold compared with the same period last year, while consumer electronics, by 77%, and perfumes and cosmetics, by 10% each.

The paper pointed out that, although U.S. and Japan announced the embargo list of luxury goods following the Security Council resolution, it is China which will determine the success of the sanction because China is the No. 1 trading partner of N. Korea. China has not yet announced its embargo list of luxury goods. Regarding this matter, Chinese Foreign Ministry said, "The embargo list of luxury goods should not hamper the normal trades (between the two countries.)"

Yang Jung-a

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This is a perfect picture of a type of parasite called a parasitoid. Such lives off its host until it causes its death. In the case of North Korea, such deaths may occur when select targets reach sun surface temperatures.

The tragedy of Korea is that North and South Korea are actually one nation of people. It is a story of a people whose families have been torn apart by a political antagonism that began with Japanese imperialism of WW II. Such antagonism caused the separation of families with the Potsdam Conference which divided Korea at the 38th parallel in 1945. The people of the north were taken over by the USSR as a reaction to the south which was being dominated by Japanese outsiders. These outsiders were ruthless and cruel and exploited their advantage after WW II. To oppose the domination of Korea by these Japanese "carpet baggers," the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) was established on May 1, 1948, with Kim Il Sung as president. With the false promise that the people of the North would be protected from the Japanese profiteers of the south, Kim Il Sung created a totalitarian state that betrayed its people in the quest for power. It has held a population of people hostage by a parasitic communist system ever since.

The tragedy is that whatever happens to the people of North Korea will be a loss to family relations of the South. These are a people desperate to reunite with their families cut off by a egomaniac's quest for power and control. The effort to frustrate the human love of family is the central evil of the Kim Il Sung regime. What is tragic is that this maniacal spell over a people may end with a doomsday of death. Such will add to the death toll of the millions who have suffered at the hand of Communism.

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