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US considers food aid for Norks
2011-03-02
Having screwed up the economy, health care, Iran, Egypt, and Libya, Obama now takes aim at the Korean Peninsula.
WASHINGTON — The US is considering resumption of food aid to North Korea amid fears people there could starve after a harsh winter, top officials said Tuesday.

Special envoy Stephen Bosworth told the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that the US is assessing the need for assistance after the reclusive Asian nation requested it.

The top US diplomat for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, told lawmakers that no decision has yet been made resuming said, and it would be taken in close coordination with South Korea. Asked whether food aid could ultimately ease economic pressure on the North, effectively allowing it put more resources into its nuclear programs, Campbell said North Korea had historically shown it was willing to allow “enormous suffering” among its people, noting that many starved during the 1990s.

“The choice here is whether these people are allowed to starve. It’s a humanitarian issue not a political one,” he said.
Except that the Norks are using it as a political issue to manipulate us. And once again, it's working.
Bosworth said if US assistance was resumed, effective monitoring would ensure it reached civilians who most needed it — amid concerns food could be diverted to the military.
Posted by:Steve White

#20  If we can make sure the food gets where it needs to go, why can't the same be said for bullets getting put into Kimmie and his cadre? Why are we acting so helpless? Oh yea, China. Don't want to piss off the little assholes.
Posted by: Fire and Ice   2011-03-02 22:40  

#19  And if beltway Assholes could fly, all of the Capital would be an airport.
Posted by: Fire and Ice   2011-03-02 22:33  

#18  Fat Bob, if wishes were beggars, horses would fly.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2011-03-02 22:24  

#17  I just wish joe m could simply type like a normal person.
Posted by: Fat Bob Ebbuling4222   2011-03-02 22:02  

#16  Let 'em eat uranium...
Posted by: tu3031   2011-03-02 21:23  

#15  Regular Joe that was great. That's what I call a keeper. Its like the man who had a pet poisonous snake. He was bit. Why did you bite me?. Fool; I'm a snake, that's what snakes do.
Posted by: Dale   2011-03-02 21:18  

#14  Feed a feral dog from your table and he'll be back for more, first with a pitiful pleading look and then a low threatening growl
Posted by: regular joe   2011-03-02 19:14  

#13  How about letting their commie brothers in China help them?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2011-03-02 16:12  

#12  Lord protect the United States of America from these naive fools. After 60 years of the same dance, Obumble and his "nuanced sophisticates" are falling for the same tired old BS that Clinton and frankly, most US leaders have fallen for in the past. Essentially we are going to feed the NKPA and self delude thats its humanitarian aid. Jeeez what predictable clowns they are in the WH.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2011-03-02 14:08  

#11  Big bags of tree bark and sand. Marked "Produce of Zimbabwe"...
Posted by: mojo   2011-03-02 13:43  

#10  Having screwed up the economy, health care, Iran, Egypt, and Libya, Obama now takes aim at the Korean Peninsula.

Go team Bambi! Let's go for complete global chaos and riots!
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-03-02 12:11  

#9  JohnQC, go one better and give up the nukes AND the Kims. A package deal.
Posted by: Alan Cramer   2011-03-02 11:14  

#8  How about food and aid for giving up his Nukes? I'm sure that's going to happen.
Posted by: JohnQC   2011-03-02 10:59  

#7  Ah, the Sheriff Bart maneuver.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2011-03-02 10:37  

#6  One of the first lessons of my Int'l Eco course was about the fungibility of money and the fact that trying to dictate that aid money only go to the most important projects was nothing but a scam.
Posted by: Alan Cramer   2011-03-02 09:02  

#5  On the bright side, this could be a economic boom for America's 35,000,000 struggling African American farmers and farm family descendents.
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-03-02 04:45  

#4  As sad as it is, it would be sadder to support Kimmie's regime and just keep repeating the cycle.
Posted by: gorb   2011-03-02 02:31  

#3  Think positively CF: if it weren't for Ronald Reagan you'd be feeding 250 million Soviets, as well as 30 million Norks.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2011-03-02 01:39  

#2  No its a political issue. When Kimmie-boy spends all his cash on Nuclear Development instead of feeding his people he makes it a political issue.

This isn't humanitarian aid - its indirect financing of his military and nuclear development.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2011-03-02 01:04  

#1  Well, KIMMIE = LIBYA'S UNCLE MUAMMAR = NOT INTIMIDATED + WILL NOT VOLUNTARILY GIVE UP RULING POWER WIDOUT A FIGHT.

Also read, WIDOUT STARTING A MAJOR WAR.

I don't see Kimmie + Jong-un giving up the whole of the DPRK's Nucprogs - they will want to have at least LIMITED NUCLEAR ARSENAL AS "HEDGE" AGZ THE US-ROK-JAPAN [you know,SSSHHHHH CHINA]; + also are likley to demand GUARANTEED MASSIVE INTERNATIONAL FOOD, OTHER MAJOR ECON ASSISTANCE PER ANNUM FOR NORTH KOREA ET PERPETUUM [read, until further notice = formal DPRK-ROK Reunification].

* ION TOPIX > NORTH KOREA REPEATS THREAT OF MILITARY RESPONSE TO DRILLS. New Mil Incidents + Seas of Nuclear + WMDS Fire.

Again, the DPRK wants to STOP STARVING + MODRNIZE + REUNIFY WID SOUTH KOREA, while RISING CHINA wants "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" SOLE BASE RIGHTS.

"NONE OF THE ABOVE" IS NOT AN OPTION 2011-2020/2025, espec for HUNGRY NORTH KOREA 2011-2015.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-03-02 01:01  

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