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2008-06-22 China-Japan-Koreas

South Korea and U.S. Reach Deal on Beef Imports

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Posted by Fred 2008-06-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Just put a %100 tariff on all South Korean products.

Posted by 3dc 2008-06-22 00:31|| 2008-06-22 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Wonder if cuts of beef (especially oxtails) will still be going out of the US forces commissaries in Korea by the shopping-cart-load....

Posted by Sgt. Mom">Sgt. Mom 2008-06-22 07:59|| http://celiahayes.com]">[http://celiahayes.com] 2008-06-22 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 And just HOW in NORK planning to pay for this Beef?
I don't think we'll take fresh, new, just minted #100 bills.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-22 16:51|| 2008-06-22 16:51|| Front Page Top

#4 South Korea, RJ.

Posted by Pappy 2008-06-22 18:10|| 2008-06-22 18:10|| Front Page Top

#5 These protests have been 100% pure Korean Bull$&!^ from day one. It really has almost nothing to do with the beef issue and everything to do with the Korean Left trying to regain some of the ground they lost after the last election, in which they got their asses royally kicked.

Korea is a crazy, self-defeating country in a lot of ways. Last night I was talking to a Korean college student who was angry with the government because they were "too violent" with the protesters. What she didn't know was that the protesters have been using iron pipes and bricks to attack the police with. The police are so afraid of being accused of a repeat of the Gwangju Massacre they'd rather get physically beaten than fire their weapons. If you want a really in-depth analysis of this issue, read Robert Koehler at The Marmot's Hole. He's covered it exhaustively. It's the first time I've seen even the normally pro-Korean Koehler just truly disgusted by Korean behavior on both sides of the issue.

It's crap like this that makes every American I know here in Korea think that it would be MUCH better on all counts if the U.S. pulled USFK out of here lock, stock and barrel.

The further we can withdraw ourselves from Korea's internal politics, the better for both countries, and that includes scrapping the proposed KORUS FTA treaty. We've been nothing but a convenient scapegoat for Korea's problems the last twenty-five years and it's long past time that ended. The Koreans simply won't face up to their own problems as long as they can blame them on foreigners who won't fight back. BTW, they'd NEVER have dared pull this kind of crap about something Chinese.

Posted by Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 2008-06-22 18:54|| 2008-06-22 18:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I agree. We need to excise the Korean tick from our body.

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-22 19:04|| 2008-06-22 19:04|| Front Page Top

#7 TOPIX + STARS-N-STRIPES > Wel-l-l, looks like iff the SOKORS don't want US BEEF, the NOKORS MIGHT. As per Various Pert claims that NOKOR's aricultural secotr s will collapse completely in 2009, due to POOR STATE PLANNING + ENVIRO DESERTIFICATIONS, NOKORS > DEMANDING GUARANTEED FOOD + ECONOMIC AID IN RETURN FOR A PERMANENT HALT TO INDIGENS NUCDEV.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2008-06-22 20:01|| 2008-06-22 20:01|| Front Page Top

#8 North Korea's agriculture sector has further to collapse? I thought they'd reached rock bottom several years ago.

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-22 20:45|| 2008-06-22 20:45|| Front Page Top

#9 apparently there's been a setback in the Lichens and Mold industry

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-06-22 22:45|| 2008-06-22 22:45|| Front Page Top

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