A poster image of missiles attacking the U.S. Capitol building hangs on a wall of a shoe factory in Sinuiju, in North Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002. Posted on 12/27/2002 8:38:06 PM PST by steplock
A poster image of missiles attacking the U.S. Capitol building hangs on a wall of a shoe factory in Sinuiju, in North Korea, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002.
The city of 400,000, which lies on the border with China, is to be walled off from the rest of North Korea and turned into a special economic zone in an attempt to attract foreign investment to the isolated nation.
The Korean characters read ''If someone starts an invasion war, we will crush the U.S. bastards first.'' (AP Photo)
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From CNN Beijing Bureau Chief Jaime FlorCruz Tuesday, October 1, 2002 Posted: 10:49 AM HKT (0249 GMT)
Resentment against the U.S. dates back to the 1950-53 Korean War
SINUIJU, North Korea (CNN) -- A painting on the wall of a school in Pyongyang shows a U.S. soldier captured during the Korean War. In a shoe factory in Sinuiju, another poster depicts an attack on the United States.
These are a few signs of the deep resentment toward America in North Korea.
Some of Pyongyang's policies may be loosening up, but on the ground, personality cult and hostility to the U.S. persists tenaciously.
Mere mention of the United States triggers passionate rant.
"During the Korean War in 1950, they came to Korea and murdered a lot of our people. So we Korean people consider American imperialists as our sworn enemy. Even now they still don't want to trade with us," Chang Kum Suk, the director of the Peony Peak Garment Factory, says.
I wonder if the KORCOMs are making nukes not to use, but to sell. Their Juchi "self-reliance" fascism cannot feed them, and all of the rifle butts and hobnail boots in the world cannot bring a single oil tanker into port.
North Korea has nothing anyone wants. Their big exports - bad copies of obsolete FROGs and Scuds - have a limited market. Russia and the US have combat ships and aircraft sewn up tight. Ditto armor, artillery, and small arms. Intercontinental-range missiles, nukes, nerve agents, toxins, and plagues - that is a vast, untapped market for them.
Even if no one ever buys these WMDs, down the line a democratic president or congress will offer them another couple of billion dollars to hide them away until a republican administration is in charge.
Kim, I'm afraid, is nothing more than a filthy capitalist.
I had an even more disturbing thought...
They've announced they "have a nuclear weapons program", and now they're restarting a reactor that will allow them to produce fissionables. The scenario that occurred to me is that we may be looking at an unholy alliance between NK and Pakistan, which (arguably unlike NK) already has the technology to weaponize the uranium/plutonium, but (I think?) doesn't have its own sources thereof...
Certainly his much vaunted 'self reliance' has a different meaning for him. He's all about helping himself to seconds (notice he's the only fat guy in North Korea). He's reputed to help himself to all manner of movies, web-surfing, and other indulgences.
Their attempts to wall off a city and make it 'Hong Kong Lite' are more signs that they are desperately clutching at straws. What investor is going to feel comfortable sinking money into a country that, on Christmas Eve, threatened to blow up the world?
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