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US to Send 500,000 Tons of Food to NK
The Korea Times ^ | 5/18/08

Posted on 05/18/2008 2:54:19 PM PDT by Dawnsblood

The United States has reached a deal with North Korea to provide 500,000 tons of food aid over the coming year to the isolated communist nation.

The U.S. administration says the aid has little to do with its nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang, although both have involved an unusual intensity of U.S. diplomacy with North Korea, a nation President George W. Bush once included as part of a rhetorical ``axis of evil.''

``We don't see any connection,'' State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was quoted as saying. ``We're doing this because America is a compassionate nation and the United States and the American people are people who reach out to those in need.''

North Korea welcomed the U.S. offer of food aid, saying Saturday the assistance would help alleviate food shortages and improve relations between the two countries.

``The food aid of the U.S. government will help settle the food shortage in the (North) to a certain extent and contribute to promoting the understanding and confidence between the peoples of the two countries,'' the country's official Korean Central News Agency said.

The North was ``ready to provide all technical conditions necessary for the food delivery,'' the KCNA said.

The United States last provided food aid to North Korea in 2005. Further deliveries fell apart in a dispute over a U.S. demand for close oversight of how the aid would be distributed. The United States wants assurances the food won't be diverted or used improperly by the government of Kim Jong-il.

(Excerpt) Read more at koreatimes.co.kr ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aid; axisofevil; bush; communists; food; humanitarianrelief; hunger; northkorea; statedept; us

1 posted on 05/18/2008 2:54:19 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: LucyT

Article posted :)


2 posted on 05/18/2008 2:55:35 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
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To: Dawnsblood

Will any food reach the starving N. Koreans, or will it all be diverted to Kim Jong-il and his Army?

... Oh, nevermind ...


3 posted on 05/18/2008 3:03:17 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Dawnsblood

“The U.S. administration says the aid has little to do with its nuclear disarmament deal with Pyongyang.”

EVERYTHING we do with/to this dictator’s desperate nationstate should be tied to its nuclear disarmament.


4 posted on 05/18/2008 3:03:55 PM PDT by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: Dawnsblood

Ahh yes... more food for the soldiers of the Chia Pet while the millions of common people can eat dog——if they can find any. Plus nuclear bomb making proceeds unhinderd. Pardon me if the warm fuzzies are absent.


5 posted on 05/18/2008 3:05:39 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: Dawnsblood

How about ANOTHER U.S. PRESIDENT CAVES TO N.K.
and gets nothing in return.

Meanwhile most of the aid no doubt will go to the military.
What a disappointment Bush has become.


6 posted on 05/18/2008 3:06:19 PM PDT by Joe Boucher (An enemy of Islam)
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To: Joe Boucher

Reward for the Syrian nuclear site?


7 posted on 05/18/2008 3:08:46 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Dawnsblood
Why do we continue to supply the North Korean troops with food and such? Are we not “technically” still at war with them?

Oh - that is right, we don't really intend to every win another war.

We can call them part of the “Axis of Evil”, while actually making nice and supporting their military.

Nice. Sounds like GW is just as big of an idiot as his predecessor.

8 posted on 05/18/2008 3:13:34 PM PDT by TheBattman (LORD God, please give us a Christian Patriot with a backbone for President in 08, Amen.)
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To: Dawnsblood

“contribute to promoting the understanding and confidence between the peoples of the two countries,’’
Yeah. Riiiight. Imagine the disinformation that comes with the food. “Our Glorious Chia Pet did this and this and this to get the foolish, and frightened Americans to pay us with food.”


9 posted on 05/18/2008 3:21:21 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ("Don't touch that thing")
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To: Dawnsblood

I don’t want them to starve but I don’t think giving them food is really helping. The bulk of it will end up going to the military and the people will continue to be starved into submission.

Maybe airdrops of huge numbers of guns and ammo into villages would be a better way to go.


10 posted on 05/18/2008 3:28:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Voting CONSERVATIVE in memory of 5 children killed by illegals 2/17/08 and 2/19/ 08)
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To: Dawnsblood

Well, the North Korean People’s Army is certainly going to eat well, courtesy of Bush and the State Department.


11 posted on 05/18/2008 3:29:40 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)
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To: tflabo

“Ahh yes... more food for the soldiers of the Chia Pet while the millions of common people can eat dog”

Uhh, don’t forget “eat each other”...


12 posted on 05/18/2008 3:58:07 PM PDT by snoringbear ('Just so to get the terminology correct; it goes like this; the federal government is the Pimp, the)
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To: Dawnsblood

No one over there will know it came from the U.S. and they will treat it just as they are in Burma. When I hear the word “deal”, I think that we are getting something in return. Are we??


13 posted on 05/18/2008 4:14:09 PM PDT by ditto h
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To: tflabo

“What a disappointment Bush has become.”

I agree.


14 posted on 05/18/2008 4:31:23 PM PDT by stockpirate (Purge the RNC and GOP of ALL SOCIALISTS . Starting with Juan McCain.)
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To: Dawnsblood

All together now sing. “We are da world, we are da children.


15 posted on 05/18/2008 4:38:15 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Three Blind Rats. Three Blind Rats, See How They Run. See How They Run. Hillbomacain)
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To: Dawnsblood
``We don't see any connection,'' State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was quoted as saying. ``We're doing this because America is a compassionate nation and the United States and the American people are people who reach out to those in need.''

Propping up a dictator is NOT helping.....Make the connection!

I swear the state dept lives in a bubble.

16 posted on 05/18/2008 4:41:15 PM PDT by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: Dawnsblood

It would be nice if at least 1 foreign or domestic policy made sense. Nothing our govt does seems to be in the national interest.


17 posted on 05/18/2008 4:53:54 PM PDT by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: Dawnsblood

US to Send 500,000 Tons of Food to NK”
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Why? We’ve given enough money to countries who hate our guts.


18 posted on 05/18/2008 7:31:47 PM PDT by cowdog77 (Circle the Wagons)
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To: Dawnsblood
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Kim Jong Il: Now you see, the changing of the worrd is inevitabre!

Lisa: I'm sorry, it's what?

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Lisa: One more time.

Kim Jong Il: [shouts] INEVITABRE! Things are inevitabrey going to change! G*ddamnit, open your f*cking ears!

19 posted on 05/19/2008 8:08:53 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (If Chris Plante Is A "Racist", Then I Must Be A Playboy Centerfold Model!)
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To: Dawnsblood

I’m opposed to a single grain of rice going to NK. The world would be better off if the whole nation of brainwashed zombies perished.


20 posted on 05/19/2008 10:19:34 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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