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2005-05-26 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-05-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ask France for help or the un. Bush should not give them a solitary grain of rice until they give up nukes and weaponary. Hungry? Chew on a reactor rod mmm mmm U238 is good for the digestion.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2005-05-26 01:10|| 2005-05-26 01:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The skin fairly glows, in fact.

Posted by .com 2005-05-26 01:13|| 2005-05-26 01:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Announce that we'll give them all the grain they want. But each grain will be dusted with potassium nitrate as a preservative. None of that grain would be given to the soldiers, I'd bet on it.

(For those of you not up on your chemicals, KNO3 was stirred into the cereal of boarding school boys to cool their desires. It isn't effective, but the boys -- and the North Korean troops -- weren't to know that. ;-] )

Posted by trailing wife 2005-05-26 01:39|| 2005-05-26 01:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Calling Amnesty International...

Posted by Ptah">Ptah 2005-05-26 05:34|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org] 2005-05-26 05:34|| Front Page Top

#5 two million people! sigh. It's mind boggling. How can one man be allowed to make so many so miserable?

Posted by 2b 2005-05-26 06:03|| 2005-05-26 06:03|| Front Page Top

#6 So what? According to Amnesty International, the US is the world's #1 human rights abuser.

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-05-26 07:55|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-05-26 07:55|| Front Page Top

#7 You're right, RC. I'm so ashamed to be an American. Why, we put panties on ~~people's~~ jihadi's heads, but 2 million starving, that's o.k. (/sarcasm off/)

Posted by BA">BA 2005-05-26 08:18|| 2005-05-26 08:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Isn't starvation a preferable way to die if your life is miserable? At least that is what the MS and the left tells us. Not only do I think we should not help the Norks feed themselves, we need to actively deny them food and water. I can find a doctor or two to sign off on it.

That's what we want. Quality of death, right?

...

Okay, thanks. I'm off my Terry Shiavo high horse now, for today, at least.

Posted by badanov">badanov 2005-05-26 08:20|| http://www.rkka.org]">[http://www.rkka.org] 2005-05-26 08:20|| Front Page Top

#9 I notice that farker Kim Jong II is well fed.

Any food we give them will only enable Kim to spend that much more on his military - at the same time he takes credit for the food we give him.

Posted by CrazyFool 2005-05-26 09:05|| 2005-05-26 09:05|| Front Page Top

#10 half a million tons of fertilizer is needed (that's about 50 pounds per person) and yet they grow virtually nothing

I'll bet most of the fertilizer ends up being used to keep the palace lawns and the miliatry parade fields green

Posted by mhw 2005-05-26 09:13|| 2005-05-26 09:13|| Front Page Top

#11 I can see the headline now: "Local Doctor: North Koreans Peaceful, Euphoric"

Posted by BH 2005-05-26 09:16|| 2005-05-26 09:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Cold BH.

Posted by Shipman 2005-05-26 09:43|| 2005-05-26 09:43|| Front Page Top

#13 In this article
Something for Pyongyang to chew on
Andrei Lankov suggets that reform is impossible.

The very existence of this affluent (from the North Korean point of view - not simply "affluent" but unbelievingly rich) and free country creates manifold problems for Pyongyang's leaders. If common North Koreans learned of South Korean prosperity and if they became less fearful of political persecution, nothing would stop them from behaving like East Germans did in 1990. Why on earth would they agree to live in a crumbling and destitute state if they knew that there was a prosperous and free "other Korea" just across the border?

Thus, the North Korean elite is cornered. These people do not want to tamper with the system since they are afraid it will collapse as a result of some experiments. In such a case, they have nothing to gain and everything to lose - not only their prosperity, privilege and power, but also their freedom - and in some cases even their lives. This means they have to continue with their policy, believing that their choice is "kill or be killed".

How to break this deadlock? The short answer is an amnesty. People who run the country should be granted immunity from persecution for all crimes.

Posted by john 2005-05-26 10:55|| 2005-05-26 10:55|| Front Page Top

#14 Any Chem Engineers out there? Check me on this, but isn't the production of chemical fertilizers pretty much comparable to the production of smokeless powders, rocket fuels, and other materiel in terms of feedstocks, chemical plants, etc?

So essentially, by providing tons of fertilizer, the South Koreans are in fact subsidizing or freeing up NK production resources to be devoted to weapons production.

We need to get our folks off that peninsula and just focus on a plan to come pick up the pieces when its all over.

Posted by DO 2005-05-26 11:01|| 2005-05-26 11:01|| Front Page Top

#15 I think that it would be good to give NKorea 200,000 tons of fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) to be delivered by a fleet of Ryder trucks parked ~~detonated~~ at selected locations

Posted by RWV 2005-05-26 11:03|| 2005-05-26 11:03|| Front Page Top

#16 DO, most fertilizers are nitrates (ammonium nitrate being the most famous) and yes, explosives also are rich in nitrates.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2005-05-26 12:08|| 2005-05-26 12:08|| Front Page Top

#17 #5 two million people! sigh. It's mind boggling. How can one man be allowed to make so many so miserable?

Ask Bill Clinton.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2005-05-26 12:09|| 2005-05-26 12:09|| Front Page Top

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