Posted on 04/22/2010 2:05:19 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Lee Slams N.Korean Extravagance
President Lee Myung-bak on Tuesday slammed North Korea's extravagant celebrations of nation founder Kim Il-sung's birthday at a time when the impoverished country seems headed for another famine. "My view is that North Korea needs to get sensible. When their people are suffering, the government spent W6 billion (US$1=W1,118) on fireworks to celebrate the birthday. How much corn could you have bought with that money?" Lee said in a meeting of 800 North American advisors to the National Unification Advisory Council.
"The North Korean government also reportedly imported luxury cars from all over the world to give to key ranking officials as present," he said. "How good it would be if it were to say 'We will not carry on with the fireworks as things are difficult for the people'? It's such a pity."
This was the first time that Lee has publicly criticized the North Korean dictatorship. The remark did not come in direct relation to the sinking of South Korean naval corvette Cheonan, but observers speculate that they reflect a harder line in the Lee administration as suspicions grow that the North attacked the ship.
Lee also hinted that senior military officers may be brought to book over the shipwreck that happened on their watch. "It's not desirable to do it right now. I don't mean that I won't, but I'm saying I will do it objectively. I'm going to consider the best timing in regard to national security, and do it not only in an exacting way but also in a way that will minimize damage to the morale of the military," he said.
http://www.yonhapnews.co.kr/politics/2010/04/22/0511000000AKR20100422178500014.HTML
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Tee up threat # 7,301.
Only problem is, one of these days they might be serious.
Zimbabwe, North Korea and others the people really are suffering but they don’t stand up to the oppression. I really don’t understand.
The similarity between the “let them eat cake” attitudes between N.Korea and this administration is eerie. Keep the good stuff for the politicians and let them get away with criminal behavior while giving the little people crap and going after them for things like not paying a thousand or so in income taxes.
The only catastrophic event which betrayed his expectation has been that China's ruthless dismantling of Shinuiju free economic zone project, sudden outbreak of stroke and currency reform debacle.
We can change this game without firing a shot. Keep the lid off S. Korea's ballistic missile program, and make SK missiles capable of targeting Pyongyang, Beijing, and Tokyo. Without going nuclear, this alone would create some major shift. Because this move push Japan to do the same and eventually Chicom should deal with the prospect of SK and Japanese ballistic missiles pointed at their major strategic targets.
This is the only way to compel China. Otherwise China would continue to shrug. There are countless excuses they can make up.
That would betray N. Korea's expectation, and put it on the defensive.
Fortunately, America is better ‘equipped’ to deal with it. There are plenty of certain hardware, which one might call the last line of defense.
South Korea should gets its pride back and wipe North Korea out.
I would volunteer to join whatever US army force helps them.It is time to answer these thugs in the only language they know.
Well Steve, If I have a gun and you don’t I can pretty much rule the Island any way I wish and if I am a bad guy that be tough.
Under communism, the people are the personal property of dear leader. They have no rights and are ultimately expendable. Has Lee figured it out?
They are afraid that the government will arrest, torture, and kill their families. So they let their families live in an existence worse than death.
This is the price that is ultimately paid for cowardice. If westerners don’t continue to stand up now, this same type of brutal communism will come to us.
one thing is for sure, General MacArthur would say "what in the hell have you guys been doing down there, pissing around for 57 years with such a two bit power!"
Nothing has worked. Kim Jong il (and Daddy before him, and Sonny Boy afterward) has played us like a fiddle.
it raised its ugly, hideous hand on a Bible 15 months ago right in our own land without a single communist revoluationary shot being fired
Obama fancies himself a morally superior “peaceful” revolutionary but he still has no problem forcibly seizing assets from the poor for the “greater good” of the LOYAL racially-worthy poor.
If Mac were to suddenly come alive, he would be definitely shocked to find out that this thing is still going on.
And neither are we to the Obamanation. Says a lot about human nature, don’t it?
There seems to be a surprising number of people who cannot grasp the utterly simple fact that there are nations around the world which are led by the clinically insane.
In other words you must be in a situation that you and your family are willing to die for.
Our founding fathers knew this as Patrick Henry so eloquently put it.
From a book called “Citizens rule book”
Young Christian attorney Patrick Henry saw why a JURY of PEERS is so vital to FREEDOM! It was March 1775 when he rode into a small town of Culpepper, Virginia. He was totally shocked by what he saw! There, in the middle of the town square was a minister tied to a whipping post, his back laid bare and bloody with the bones of his ribs showing. He had been scourged mercilessly like JESUS, with whips laced with metal.
Patrick Henry is quoted as saying: "When they stopped beating him, I could see the bones of his rib cage. I turned to someone and asked what the man had done to deserve such a beating as this."
SCOURAGED FOR NOT TAKING A LICENSE!
The reply given him was that the man being scourged was a minister who refused to take a license. He was one of twelve who were locked in jail because they refused to take a license. A license often becomes an arbitrary control by government that makes a crime out of what ordinarily would not be a crime. IT TURNS A RIGHT INTO A PRIVILEGE! Three days later they scourged him to death.
This was the incident which sparked Christian attorney Patrick Henry to write the famous words which later became the rallying cry of the Revolution. "What is it that Gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know no what course others may take, but as for me, GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!" ... Later he made this part of his famous speech at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Williamsburg, Virginia.
http://www.patriotnetwork.info/Citizens_rule_book.htm
Joe, once a people are willing to die for liberty acquiring the arms will become second nature.
We in the US are not dyeing in numbers at the hands of our slave masters yet. Until that happens the great awaking will not take place. But in North Korea they are dying and their great awakening should have taken place and that is what I don't understand.
I heard somewhere that total unquestioning obedience to authority is a major part of North Korean culture. Perhaps they see submission as a moral act worthy of any sacrifice.
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