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China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea Asks U.S. for More Food Aid
2012-01-12
North Korea has reportedly asked the U.S. to expand the scale of potential food aid. Sources said Pyongyang late last month asked Washington to increase promised food aid from 24,000 tons to 30,000.
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The reclusive state also asked for more than nutritional assistance, adding grain to the aid list, sources added. The U.S refuses to provide grain because it fears that would be diverted to the military.
Perhaps I'm being hasty. Throw off your communist rulers, shoot Pudgy and commit to an open society, and we'll talk.
During talks in New York before North Korean leader Kim Jong-il died, Pyongyang had tentatively agreed to take steps toward denuclearization in return for food aid.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  The regime will use this to add to the gift of food they give to their citizens later each year out of the goodness of their leaders' communist hearts. They will have the folks in the gulags erase any trace of Made in (Wherever) erased from it, then they will kill them. They have different levels of gulags depending on the particular blend of classifications of work secrecy, work necessity, citizen "criminality"/expendability, work due dates, risk of leaks, etc.. All very understandable, really. And anyone who feeds or votes this system into existence needs to burn in help for a long time to make up for all the misery they perpetuate.
Posted by: gorb   2012-01-12 19:49  

#6  No.
Posted by: Barbara   2012-01-12 19:44  

#5  How about a trade of Grain for Nukes?
Posted by: Cluque Untervehr3229   2012-01-12 19:11  

#4  The reclusive state also asked for more than nutritional assistance, adding grain to the aid list, sources added.

In other words they want rice to distribute to regime supporters and guard dogs. Nutritional biscuits and vitamin supplements are for proles. Every biscuit should be prominently stamped "USA".
Posted by: Shimble Guelph5793   2012-01-12 15:49  

#3  Perhaps I'm being hasty. Throw off your communist rulers, shoot Pudgy and commit to an open society, and we'll talk.

Amen. I would go to 24.5k tons if they would just stop being such ..., rhymes with "Ricks".
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2012-01-12 13:16  

#2  the whole country is being held hostage as human shields.
Posted by: Ptah   2012-01-12 08:36  

#1  No, Hell no, no way in hell no, get the picture?

Y'all set the trap, now die from it, Chabge tour Government, then Beg.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2012-01-12 00:52  

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