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2006-10-14 China-Japan-Koreas
Western businessmen sense a change in the Hermit Kingdom
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Posted by Steve White 2006-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 FREEREPUBLIC.com > article - NEW COMMUNISTS USE SAME OLD METHODS. Government [for now] still in charge of everything despite changes and econ/market liberalizations.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-14 00:22||   2006-10-14 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Rope salesman.
Posted by ed 2006-10-14 01:03||   2006-10-14 01:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah , now they have two extra light bulbs and a nuke...great

http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/dprk/images/dprk-dmsp-dark.jpg

Next grass soup will be upgraded to dandelion porridge.

Any western businessman in North Korea should be at the top of drug and weapon trade list or maybe I'm nuts.
Posted by Dunno 2006-10-14 01:14||   2006-10-14 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 He knows two people who bought their own cars with their own money... OK, I'm convinced.
Seriously, how low do you have to be, and just what are you doing, with your twelve years "consulting" in North Korea?
Posted by Grunter 2006-10-14 01:23||   2006-10-14 01:23|| Front Page Top

#5 Seriously, how low do you have to be, and just what are you doing, with your twelve years "consulting" in North Korea?

He's got the lock on a kim chee recipe that can be made with rainwater, cardboard and floor sweepings.
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2006-10-14 03:07||   2006-10-14 03:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Famine is such a mean word.
I prefer less than minimal diet.

I feel better now.

Posted by Shipman 2006-10-14 08:01||   2006-10-14 08:01|| Front Page Top

#7 :->
Posted by .com 2006-10-14 08:03||   2006-10-14 08:03|| Front Page Top

#8 a high quality, low-cost workforce

Translation: slaves who are shot if they screw up.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2006-10-14 08:22|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2006-10-14 08:22|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sooo tired of morons who go to a forest, see a couple of trees and think that's makes 'em experts on the local ecology.
Posted by gromgoru 2006-10-14 14:43||   2006-10-14 14:43|| Front Page Top

#10 Shipman - you mean 'supermodel-thin'.
Posted by DMFD 2006-10-14 16:55||   2006-10-14 16:55|| Front Page Top

#11 or like Ted Turner said, "I mean, um, yeah, like I saw some people who were thin, but they were riding bicycles and stuff".
Posted by anon 2006-10-14 17:04||   2006-10-14 17:04|| Front Page Top

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