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2005-05-20 China-Japan-Koreas
US Split On North Korean Food Aid
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Posted by Pheresing Greter5645 2005-05-20 14:51|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 "Last year, 50,000 metric tons of American food were sent to North Korea..."
We are out of our minds.
Posted by Tom 2005-05-20 15:00||   2005-05-20 15:00|| Front Page Top

#2 As a Marine friend of mine once said, "Feed 'em lead"...
Posted by tu3031 2005-05-20 15:03||   2005-05-20 15:03|| Front Page Top

#3 i say f-em! Any money or food we send over means Kimmie-boy can

A) spend that much more on his military (read: ON KILLING AMERICANS and South Koreans) and

B) allows kimmie to appear as 'the Savior' as he repackages any food as being 'from Kim' and/or give the food to his lackeys / thugs / military.

As much as I would like to help the North Korean 'people' anything we send will be rerouted to his military. Hell we may as well start sending food to Al-Q, Iran, China, Saudi Arabia, NBC, the DNC, and everyone else who would like to see us destroyed.
Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-20 15:15||   2005-05-20 15:15|| Front Page Top

#4 Dropping 50,000 metric tons on the DNC might be effective...
Posted by Tom 2005-05-20 15:20||   2005-05-20 15:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Send them a freighter filled with White Castles.
Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford  2005-05-20 15:32|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2005-05-20 15:32|| Front Page Top

#6 We fight one hell of nasty war with them. Roundly trounce their butts until the Chinese get hands on. Then we slowly work our way to the point where we've been providing aid to prop the regime up and can't seem to stop it. All the while they growl and bear rotten teeth to us like a vicious little animal whose back's against the wall. Then they go all out to learn how to make nukes and long-range missles. Why is it again that we provide them food aid and what has been the benefit derived?
Posted by Tkat 2005-05-20 15:41||   2005-05-20 15:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Any money or food we send over means Kimmie-boy can..

Exactly. Once the food aid gets past the dock onto NKor mother soil, the donors no longer have any control over it.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-05-20 16:43||   2005-05-20 16:43|| Front Page Top

#8 North Koreas Army of Starved Soldiers

A decade of famine in North Korea, which has killed about ten percent of the population, has also stunted a generation physically and mentally. Until a few years ago, the North Korean army rejected any young man who was not at least five feet three inches tall. No more. Visitors to the north note that more and more of the young soldiers they see appear to be the size of children (under five feet tall.)
Posted by john 2005-05-20 16:48||   2005-05-20 16:48|| Front Page Top

#9 The Giant Leap Backwards. Redux. II.

It's just simply amazing to me that anyone can suggest support, of any kind, for regimes such as NKor, Zimbob, etc. - and be serious about it.

Their personal guilt trips should remain personal affairs - not involving my tax dollars. I heard it referred to as The Kennedy Syndrome, somewhere back awhile ago. That certainly seems to fit - and there's little doubt it's an integral part of the Moonbat psyche. PEST and BDS don't begin to cover the range of the malady. I figure someday there will be an entire psychological school of thought dedicated to studying this misanthropic behavior.
Posted by .com 2005-05-20 17:07||   2005-05-20 17:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Food Aid is effective and important when provided to non-kleptocracies and countries that suffer specific catastrophes. Pumping economic aid into a tyranny is akin to providing a skid row bum with a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
Posted by Super Hose 2005-05-20 17:51||   2005-05-20 17:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey! I'm under 5' tall!
Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-20 18:09||   2005-05-20 18:09|| Front Page Top

#12 And I hear no suggestions about subsidizing me, even though I am definitely not a totalitarian kleptocracy. So I don't see why North Korea should get anything.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-20 18:12||   2005-05-20 18:12|| Front Page Top

#13 
US Split On North Korean Food Aid
Yeah, that's a tough call.

Should we give them NOTHING?

Or less than that?
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2005-05-20 19:16||   2005-05-20 19:16|| Front Page Top

#14 Well, according to the Wall Street Journal (dead tree edition), we ARE giving them nothing. :)
Posted by Edward Yee">Edward Yee  2005-05-20 19:20|| http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]">[http://edwardyee.fanworks.net]  2005-05-20 19:20|| Front Page Top

#15 TW,
Then you can still see the top of Kimmie's head in heels (his, not yours).
Posted by ed 2005-05-20 19:24||   2005-05-20 19:24|| Front Page Top

#16 Well, I'm not going to dance with him, not even for the sake of peace in the region.

But I will weep quietly for the nation he torments, even as I agree with all of you that under no circumstances should we subsidize his evil.
Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-20 20:25||   2005-05-20 20:25|| Front Page Top

#17 There is one effective, sure way to totally destroy the North Korean army. Grade the area on this side of the DMZ and build every type of fast-food restaurant that exists. Build huge fans south of there, pointing north. Have them all start cooking, and turn on the fans. I'd be willing to bet on 50,000 desertions a day until there's nothing left.
Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot  2005-05-20 21:43|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]  2005-05-20 21:43|| Front Page Top

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