[Destro]

I guess the cold war really is over!

[PsyOp]

I'll bet that deal really frosted the gonads China and North Korea! Especially the LCACs!

[Destro]

Enjoy

[DainBramage]

Maybe they really mean arms.

[YOMO]

Good now they don't have to invade North Korea to get the Russian Arms.

[lavaroise]

We should do the same damn thing instead of letting them default on loans. All the power to us, we need armament bad.

[glorgau]

I suppose they are taking the stuff for training purposes, and just so that they get "something" (better than nothing) for the loans that have probably been written off as worthless.

[GOP_1900AD]

There is something very Machiavellian here. I wonder what the real angle is from the standpoint of the DPRK-loving Kremlin? The last time there was a state visit (by train!) of the DPRK to Russia, it was a veritable love fest. There must be something hidden in this that does not meet the eye. "Booga, booga, booga!" (from the depths of my bunker, wreathed in tin foil, shouting "yee haw" in unison with the bomb riding General....Belmont Mark out...)

[LarryLied]

Good. Keeps the weapons out of the hands of the looters in Russia:

At the end of 2001, the chairman of the Russian Audit Chamber (an independent parliamentary watchdog organization the controls the spending of budgetary funds), Sergei Stepashin disclosed that of the $3.7 billion Russia earned on arms exports in 2000, government coffers got only $7,000 .

http://www.bu.edu/iscip/vol12/felgenhauer2.html

[klpt]