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2013-05-29 China-Japan-Koreas

N.Korea Says Factory Owners Can Come to Kaesong

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Posted by Steve White 2013-05-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Must be looking for Hostages. And if they send the 'complex management committee' so much the better.

Factory owners and 'management committee' members probably make very good hostages. Some might even be politically connected.

Posted by CrazyFool 2013-05-29 00:21|| 2013-05-29 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder if South Korea's tax structure allows for writeoffs for nonperforming assets, because that's what you have here. If I were a factory owner, I'd look into it.

Posted by Raj 2013-05-29 00:48|| 2013-05-29 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe we could send our Sec State and a few Senators to Kaesong too, to help with negotiations - and they could stay until everything is fixed.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-05-29 08:52|| 2013-05-29 08:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Seen that game before, have they?

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-05-29 10:27|| 2013-05-29 10:27|| Front Page Top

#5 HAW, HAW, HAW, not biting.
Fool me once, but not twice.

You Loosee Facee.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-29 10:46|| 2013-05-29 10:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmm..Lucy Van Pelt to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-05-29 11:40|| 2013-05-29 11:40|| Front Page Top

#7 South Korean authorities need not worry unnecessarily about the owners' safety

That's the key phrase right there
"neednot worry UNNESSARILY about the owners safety.

But what about NECESSARY worries?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2013-05-29 20:36|| 2013-05-29 20:36|| Front Page Top

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