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2011-09-03 China-Japan-Koreas

N. Korea Plans to Lease Farm Land in Siberia

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Posted by Steve White 2011-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 perhaps the local lands are too barren, polluted, or....radioactive?

Posted by Frank G 2011-09-03 00:18|| 2011-09-03 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I was saddened to learn that California lost the bid.

Posted by Besoeker 2011-09-03 00:21|| 2011-09-03 00:21|| Front Page Top

#3 California couldn't win: too many one-inch fishies that need to be protected...

Posted by Steve White 2011-09-03 01:47|| 2011-09-03 01:47|| Front Page Top

#4 How will they pay?
Or will they pay?
It's a colonization scheme.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-09-03 04:05|| 2011-09-03 04:05|| Front Page Top

#5 They pay in part of the food they produce, RJ. And, of course it's a colonization scheme.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-09-03 04:08|| 2011-09-03 04:08|| Front Page Top

#6 But it is a Korean colonization program, not Chinese. The Russians are rightly concerned that the Russian Far East might be the next Tibet, and want demographic counters for that. The Russians are looking to get ethnic auxiliaries in place that are not Chinese; since they cannot convince enough ethnic Russians to move out there.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2011-09-03 15:03|| 2011-09-03 15:03|| Front Page Top

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