[TigerLikesRooster]

Unfortunately, fertilizer could be used to grow opium. It is probably their only cash crop.

[sushiman]

Tell 'em to dump it at Kim's front door !

[TD911]

Appease, Appease, Appease!

That's all the South Koreans can do anymore.

Let's get our troops out of there and let "re-unification" begin.

Japan will take care of the nuke problem for us.

[Arkinsaw]

What kind of fertilizer?

[small voice in the wilderness]

Is this their way of telling North Korea to eat sh*t and die?

[midwestmidnight]

I think that the U.S. should help North Korea with their nuclear program. Send them all the depleted uranium that we can muster at very high velocities!

[philo]

I hope they transport it in a Ryder truck

[Orion78]

From the CIA The World Factbook 2003:

North Korea, one of the world's most centrally planned and isolated economies, faces desperate economic conditions. Industrial capital stock is nearly beyond repair as a result of years of underinvestment and spare parts shortages. Industrial and power output have declined in parallel. Despite a good harvest in 2001, the nation faces its ninth year of food shortages because of a lack of arable land; collective farming; weather-related problems, including major drought in 2000; and chronic shortages of fertilizer and fuel. Massive international food aid deliveries have allowed the regime to escape mass starvation since 1995-96, but the population remains vulnerable to prolonged malnutrition and deteriorating living conditions. Large-scale military spending eats up resources needed for investment and civilian consumption. Recently, the regime has placed emphasis on earning hard currency, developing information technology, addressing power shortages, and attracting foreign aid, but in no way at the expense of relinquishing central control over key national assets or undergoing widespread market-oriented reforms. In 2002, heightened political tensions with key donor countries and general donor fatigue have held down the flow of desperately needed food aid and threaten fuel aid as well.

[Monty22]

I doubt the north koreans want 200,000 pounds of hillary's book.

[RJL]

Our own Bill Clinton has a never-ending supply of Bull $hit. Perfect for fertilizer. Perhaps we should send him to North Korea. Bill would just love living in a Totalitarian Communist state too.

It would be a big win/win for everyone.

[yonif]

Why Does North Korea need fertilizer? Can't it just use the bodies of the hundreds of thousands people killed every year because of starvation or repression by the communist government?

[TheCrusader]

I always knew those North Koreans ate sh-t.

[RightWhale]

No Kor should throw open their borders. They have little to lose and no one wants what they have so they won't be in danger of being overrun and turned into slaves.

[pbear8]

Did they order their fertilizer from Scott Peterson?

[ampat]

That'll make one helluva bomb.

[DoctorMichael]

When you have your boot-heel on the neck of a poisonous snake, you don't let it up.

[Vinnie_Vidi_Vici]

I hope that the fertilizer is in the form of Ammonium Nitrate packed into a very large Ryder truck!!!