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| N.Korea makes first request for flood aid: group |
| 2006-08-09 |
| North Korea has asked Seoul for aid to repair damage from floods that could tip the impoverished state into famine, a South Korean group said on Wednesday. It is the first time a North Korean organization has formally requested help from the South for help for the flooding, which destroyed roads, railways and homes. South Korea has said it is considering a one-time package of aid to avert a crisis in North Korea despite strains between the neighbors over Pyongyang's July 5 missile tests. Three major storms hit North Korea last month, causing floods that killed at least 151 people, and possibly more. The secretive state is suspicious of outside aid workers and limits their access to people and places, making it difficult to receive a clear picture of the extent of the damage. It has said the storms left hundreds dead or missing. A North Korean committee on reconciliation sent a fax to its counterpart in the South requesting building material, machinery, food, blankets and medication to help it cope with a disaster international aid agencies say left tens of thousands homeless. "We express our appreciation for the efforts by the ... (South Korean) committee and other groups to overcome the difficulties with brotherly love faced together by the North and the South due to the unexpected floods," it said in the message. The North, which battles chronic food shortages, has relied on food handouts from Seoul for years. The South suspended regular food aid last month after Pyongyang officials stormed out of an inter-Korean meeting at which Seoul asked the North to explain why it defied international warnings and test-fired seven missiles. The North has halted several inter-Korean cooperation projects in retaliation for the collapsed discussions. The South said it could resume food aid if the North returned to stalled talks on ending its nuclear weapons program. More |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 SKOR will bail them out. They still have relatives there and despite Kim's lack of concern for the lower class SKOR won't want peasants to starve. As much as I hate that F&%k using food against the peasants seems to me not the right answer. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-08-09 21:26 |
| #6 give me your money or I'll shoot you |
| Posted by: pihkalbadger 2006-08-09 19:10 |
| #5 Let 'em starve. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-08-09 15:19 |
| #4 Finish them, finish them! Korea pulled their aid from the chinese satalite in hopes of getting them back up to the table to talk about settling concerns over the errors in the Norks ways. Don't waffle know!!!!! If they want to eat, they need to come to the table - no more food scraps thrown to the wind less you want a tom cat meowing beneath your window and raping your new pet kitten. |
| Posted by: Rick 2006-08-09 12:53 |
| #3 Make 'um say "pretty please". |
| Posted by: BrerRabbit 2006-08-09 12:13 |
| #2 Where is all the Love from the cadre of communist states? Why isnt hugo on a plane promising billions to the afflicted masses living under lilkims boots? hugo will turn venezuela into the same kind of tyranical state as n korea is, count the minutes, these two have everything in common, loot loot loot....excuse excuse excuse....as they use use use....the lives and property of everyone living under the retrograde pathology of the socialist international. |
| Posted by: Snutle Chavirong8710 2006-08-09 11:56 |
| #1 Remains to be seen if the South will be foolish enough to once again bail out the NorKs. However, I'm inclined to believe they will. As people who actually remember the Korean war start to shuffle off this mortal coil in increasing numbers, the tendency towards wishful thinking on the part of South Korean politicians grows. |
| Posted by: RWV 2006-08-09 09:43 |