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| U.S. Congress to Ban Food Aid to N.Korea | ||
| 2013-02-10 | ||
A congressional source on Wednesday said Senate majority leader Harry Reid re-introduced the Farm Bill late last month prohibiting the diversion of funds raised for foreign aid to send food to the North. The U.S. has given food aid to the North from funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The bill would ban the practice until 2018 except if the president grants an exception he considers in the U.S. interest.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 See also CHINESE DEFENSE > THE DPRK SHOULD INVADE THE SOUTH NOW. ARTIC = DPRK is at or very near to decisive "make-or-break" point, Better for the DPRK to wage war now agz the ROK or US-ROK [Japan?] + risk Chinese MilPol intervention in DPRK to its advantage than to keep getting weaker-n-weaker steadily but certainly vee China, US, ROK + every other Nation in NE + East Asia??? * WORLD NEWS > SOUTH KOREA ON "FIRST STRIKE ALERT" OVER [North Korea] NUCLEAR TESTS. versus * FREEREPUBLIC > [Zero Hedge] IS CHINA MOBILIZING FOR A WAR AGZ JAPAN? Various NDTV Repors or claims of mass PLA Troop, Vehicle deployments in Pert-acknowledged "strategic" Fujian + Zhejian provinces [logistics support]. MAP = provinces are offshore = right next to TAIWAN which is China's main/ultimate focii. Lest we fergit, CHINA wants the Senkakus [Okinawa?] to guard the sea/maritime approaches to, from its desired future PLA Milbases in [post-Unification] TAIWAN. "CONTINENTAL SHELF" = UW SEAFLOOR RESOURCES = GOOD-TO-ALSO-HAVE. * SAME > [Japan Times] CHINESE VESSELS BUSY CIRCLING THE SENKAKUS AGAIN. FYI, besides allegedly locking on its weapons radars agz Nippon JMSDF Ship + Helo, China during same suppos scrambled another 10 PLAAF strike-fighters as a just-in-case??? * WORLD MILITARY FORUM > SOUTH KOREA "CENTRAL DAILY" MEDIA: US, SOUTH KOREA DO NOT RULE OUT PREEMPTIVE MILITARY STRIKE AGZ NORTH KOREA OVER NUCLEAR TESTS. * SAME > US OFFICIALS: NORTH KOREA MAY TEST-FIRE KN-08 "MUSUDAN" NUCLEAR-CAPABLE INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSLES DURING THIRD NUCLEAR TEST. * TOPIX > [Stars & Stripes] IFF SEQUESTRATION CUTS TAKE EFFECT, USS "GEORGE WASHINGTON" MAY BE ONLY US CARRIER READY TO RESPOND IN A CRISIS. Ahhh yes, NORTH KOREA vs. the "MIGHTY GEORGE" once again. Some MilBloggers-Posters opine that "sequestration" + related woes gives the Bammer a PCorrect-Deniable excuse to allow China + PLA to militarily forcibly change the map in NE Asia quyickly before the US can PCorrectly intervene on behalf of its Ally(s) but I won't get into that now. * TOPIX > VARIOUS = US TO BECOME A SECOND-RATE POWER. * CHINESE DEFENSE > CHINESE SHIP CONTINUES PATROLLING DIAOYU ISLANDS WATERS. CHINA REJECTED JAPAN-PROPOSED "ISLAND-SHARING" AS PER THE SENKAKUS, BUT WILL CHINA ACCEPT THE IDEA VEE THE "WEAK/DECLINING" = "SECOND-RATE" [worse/lower?] USA - Will China demand + get US-accepted "Base Rights" to Guam-CNMI e.g. PLAN/Navy + PLAAF in Guam [NW Field] or CNMI??? Will Guam "capsize" like Celine "Titanic" Dion's mighty but vulnerable USN Battleship USS "Oklahoma" wid the USDOD + PLA here??? [HUGO CHAVEZ ISLAND,LAND-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMBS" + "TITANIC" THEME here]. The good news is that it taint an ever-increasing-in-size Asteroid(s), Sl9 Jupiter Chunks, Solar Storm, or the Himalayan Super-Caldera. But once again, I digress ... |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-11 00:13 |
| #1 Like the Senate in Imperial Rome. A debating society. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-02-10 14:28 |