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2005-03-16 China-Japan-Koreas

Korea supplies power to North for first time in five decades

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Posted by Steve White 2005-03-16 00:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 South Korea supplies the electricity and North Korea supplies the slaves......

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-03-16 12:29:14 AM|| 2005-03-16 12:29:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 South Korea on Wednesday began supplying electricity to an industrial complex inside communist North Korea, officials said, relinking a cross-border power line severed more than five decades ago.

Suckers!

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-16 1:37:12 AM|| 2005-03-16 1:37:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I was okay with this until the numbers at the end. 100,000 kW (100 MW) suggests one hell of a big industrial park -- I'd guess about a half million sewing machines with good lighting overhead. Somebody's stretching the truth here.

Posted by Tom 2005-03-16 8:37:44 AM|| 2005-03-16 8:37:44 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 That's crazier than getting between some smuggling tunnels and a D9.

Posted by Steve from Relto 2005-03-16 9:18:00 AM|| 2005-03-16 9:18:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 What a bunch of cowards the SK are.

Posted by Glereper Craviter7929 2005-03-16 1:14:55 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:14:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 One alternative way to consider this. The South knows the North has nukes. The South knows the North is going to crash soon. It can crash in one of two directions, China or the South. The South is just trying to make sure that it falls toward it so that China does not have an excuse to move into half the country. The south gets nukes the easy way and is able to stand up to China. Not a bad outcome.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-16 1:41:26 PM|| 2005-03-16 1:41:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 I agree with Mrs. Davis.

The N. Korean people now know theyâve been lied to. They watch videotapes of S. Korean soap operas. The N. Korean regime is going to fall.

The US acts as bad cop and keeps squeezing. The S. Koreans act as good cop and are an attractive alternative for the N. Korean people. Between the US squeezing and the S. Korean seduction, N. Korea is going to change.

Hopefully N. Korea will fall quietly to S. Korea and not violently to China.

If N. Korea and S. Korea do unite, I donât expect the resulting country to be particularly friendly toward the US. At least N. Korea will be gone.

Posted by Anonymous5032 2005-03-16 4:07:08 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:07:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 South Korea could assemble a bomb in 3 months or less now, they don't need a blueprint.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-16 4:34:35 PM|| 2005-03-16 4:34:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 The Kaesong economic zone will become a cash cow for the Pyongyang regime. Additionally, it will become a channel through which 'progressive' forces in the South will be able to funnel advanced technology to their friends in the North.

The combination of the two (money and technology going North) will effectively defeat any attempts at sanctions as envisaged by the US and Japan.

Yep, as far as Kim Jong-il is concerned, it just doesn't get any better than this!

Posted by Michael Sheehan 2005-03-16 10:27:27 PM|| 2005-03-16 10:27:27 PM|| Front Page Top

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