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| Pyongyang: Lookin’ out for their SK homies |
| 2003-12-02 |
| This link courtesy of some yahoo at Fark.com. You can follow the link for even more fun stories, or you can read the article in full here: Tremendous Damage Caused by U.S. Imperialists to S. Korea Estimated Pyongyang (KCNA) -- The Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Fatherland and the National Reunification Institute made public a memorandum on November 28 after making a joint comprehensive survey of the human and material damage caused by the U.S. imperialists to the south Korean people since it occupied south Korea on September 8, 1945 and estimating its total amount. The memorandum said: The U.S. imperialists killed in cold blood at least 2,240,000 civilians and patriots or 10 percent of the population of south Korea right after their occupation of south Korea (September 1945-May 1950) and during the Korean war of aggression (June 1950-July 1953). At least 83,000 innocent people were killed by the U.S. imperialists’ firing, violence, terrorism, robbery, rape, arson, deliberate traffic incident, spread of contagious diseases and spray of defoliant in the postwar period (August 1953-present). According to compiled data, a total of over 2,323,000 people were killed and 6,520,000 wounded. The amount of damage inflicted by the U.S. imperialists upon the south Korean people runs into astronomical figures. If the victims are considered to be still alive and the income to be earned by them during their lifetime plus its interest and the changed value of U.S. dollar, etc. are estimated by the calculation method according to the international usage, the amount of damage caused to the dead is estimated to be 9,343,020,050,000 U.S. dollars, the amount of damage to the wounded 13,105,728,120,000 U.S. dollars, bringing the total amount of human damage to 22,448,748,170,000 U.S. dollars. If a total amount of damage including the confiscation of "enemy property," the levy of taxes, extortion of grains is estimated at the present price, it amounts to 4,281,665,880,000 U.S. dollars. A total amount of damage caused by destruction runs into 5,145,398,340,000 U.S. dollars when estimated at the present price, and the amount of damage resulting from "aid" totals 2,341,469,900,000 U.S. dollars and the amount of damage incurred by trade and the market opening totals 1,413,903,760,000 U.S. dollars. If the amount of damage caused by the infiltration of U.S. monopoly capital plus its interest is estimated at the present price, it comes to 4,233,270,160,000 U.S. dollars. This means, in the final analysis, the U.S. imperialists have inflicted upon south Korea material and economic losses worth 17,415,708,040,000 U.S. dollars through plunder, destruction, "aid," trade and the market opening and the infiltration of capital since their occupation of south Korea. Meanwhile, the loss south Korea has suffered due to the U.S. military bases totals 127,792,170,000 U.S. dollars and the loss incurred by its payment of the expenses for the upkeep of the U.S. troops in south Korea is estimated at 705,395,760,000 U.S. dollars. South Korea’s loss caused by the forced purchase of war equipment totals 1,083,633,580,000 U.S. dollars when its interest and the changed value of a U.S. dollar are taken into account. The U.S. imperialists have staged a total of 13,700 war exercises of various forms in south Korea, counting only those made public. The amount of damage caused by them is estimated to be 577,742,910,000 U.S. dollars. If the amount of damage caused to the land, forests and rivers and streams by environmental pollution and destruction is estimated on the basis of the expenses for restoring them to their original state, it totals 780 billion U.S. dollars. A total amount of military damage the U.S. imperialists have inflicted upon south Korea totals 3,274,564,420,000 U.S. dollars. They have vandalized and looted at least 38,100 cultural treasures since their occupation of south Korea. They are valued at hundreds of billions of U.S. dollars. They have smuggled drug worth 12 billion U.S. dollars into south Korea during their presence in south Korea, rendering the people mentally and physically deranged. They have brutally violated many south Korean women and reduced them to sexual slaves, producing hundreds of thousands of foreigners’ whores and mixed-bloods. The sexual damage caused by the U.S. imperialist aggressor troops to south Korea amounts to more than a hundred billion U.S. dollars even when it is calculated according to the standard of compensation to be made for the sexual slavery for the Imperial Japanese Army. The above-said estimates are based on a scientific review of various data quoted by statistical yearbooks officially released by the south Korean authorities, publications printed in south Korea and abroad, testimonies of individuals, information available from political, financial, academic, press and various other circles of south Korea and reports of the U.S., Japanese and other foreign media. The damage was surveyed according to the international usage and in conformity with the specific conditions of south Korea. The amount of damage was estimated according to the formula commonly used worldwide. The total amount of human and material damage the U.S. imperialists have inflicted upon the south Korean people for nearly 60 years since their occupation of south Korea runs into 43,139,020,630,000 U.S. dollars. Golly - I guess you CAN put a price on human suffering. |
| Posted by:ccwbass (formerly FormerLiberal) |
| #5 Ah, Senator Proxmire would have been proud - a trillion here, a trillion there, and pretty soon - we'd be talking about some REALLY SERIOUS kimchee. |
| Posted by: Lone Ranger 2003-12-2 11:52:24 PM |
| #4 Damn more reparations. We need to bite the bullet and deal with slave guilt and Nork guilt. We need to pay off our debts to these people with special Continental Reprations Dollars. I will do the design myself for a small fee in (US Federal Reserve Debt Money) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-2 3:57:34 PM |
| #3 I wonder if i'd become an enemy of the North Korean state if I personally sent Kimmie a bill - let's call it an Annoyance Tax - for the 43 trillion dollars. It's win-win for the United States: The US caves in Kim's demands, but he turns around and signs the check to me, and I pump that money right back into the ecomony AND consequently turn the Hostess Cupcake company into the most powerful corporation in the world, allowing them to beat out both Coke and Disney as our main tools of Imperialism, AND we get the added benefit of seeing Europe - newly addicted to creamy fillings and golden sponge cakes - become as fat as we are, which would serve 'em right, the jerks. |
| Posted by: ccwbass 2003-12-2 1:29:40 PM |
| #2 .....At least 83,000 innocent people were killed by the U.S. imperialists’ firing, violence, terrorism, robbery, rape, arson, deliberate traffic incident, spread of contagious diseases and spray of defoliant..... The others are OK, but I never thought the USA would stoop to "deliberate traffic incidents". I am ashamed to be an American. /sarcasm |
| Posted by: Chris Smith 2003-12-2 1:25:25 PM |
| #1 And yet the South Koreans aren't searching for grass and tree bark to make their next meal. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2003-12-2 1:15:12 PM |