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2006-10-16 China-Japan-Koreas
'Sanctions will hurt N Korea's poor, not regime'
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Posted by Fred 2006-10-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 They want us to keep sending aid + $$$ which these groups know most of which will end up being diverted to the DPRK armed forces and Party, which in turn bears the real risk of US-Allied milfors incurring higher level of casualties should any mil action take place against the NOrkies. PLUS, ONCE AGAIN, 'TIS ONLY THE USA-WEST THAT IS DEMANDED TO ENGAGE IN EQUALISM = UNILATERAL "HUMANISM/HUMANITARIANISM", NOT THE NORKIES vv THEIR OWN PEOPLE.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-10-16 00:32||   2006-10-16 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 PakiWaki Daily Slimes. The people of Kimmie's Gulag are screwed, regardless, will receive no aid, regardless, and will suffer, regardless, as long as Kimmie's Gulag exists.
Posted by .com 2006-10-16 00:42||   2006-10-16 00:42|| Front Page Top

#3 Tough shit.
Posted by Glerelet Flaviger5433 2006-10-16 01:35||   2006-10-16 01:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Humanitarian groups are sounding alarm bells over the potential impact of UN sanctions on their bloated bureaucratic structures, saying that as the money dries up, tough action may hurt their pampered holier-than-thou jobs more than the communist regime.

Oops, fixed your introductory paragraph there!
Posted by anon1 2006-10-16 04:55||   2006-10-16 04:55|| Front Page Top

#5 NorK's poor are already eating sand. It can't get much worse.
Posted by gorb 2006-10-16 05:07||   2006-10-16 05:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Rolling out the "bitter Afghan winter" theme again.
I guess Chomsky et al have not yet acknowledged that 2 million Afghans failed to starve to death in 01-02. The Afghans defeated the Soviet army by outlasting it and they defeated the Soviets' ideological heirs by simply staying alive.
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-16 06:12||   2006-10-16 06:12|| Front Page Top

#7 
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-16 06:23||   2006-10-16 06:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Don't these clueless tools know that nuclear bombs will hurt the poor? And the middle class, the rich, the mega-rich, dogs, cats, goats.....
Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-16 06:26||   2006-10-16 06:26|| Front Page Top

#9 "hurts NKor's poor?..."

They're ALL poor...

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2006-10-16 06:37||   2006-10-16 06:37|| Front Page Top

#10 'Sanctions will hurt N Korea's poor, not regime'
Well maybe they wont hurt anyone
Posted by tipper 2006-10-16 06:59||   2006-10-16 06:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes, because the North Korean famine has gotten to the point where the peasantry is surviving solely on imported luxury goods, drugs, and weaponry.

'Cause nothing keeps the wolf from the door and the cannibals from Granny's fresh-dug grave like Scotch, lobsters, heroin and Scud spare parts.
Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H.  2006-10-16 10:59|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]  2006-10-16 10:59|| Front Page Top

#12 The only alternative to sanctions is a direct military attack.

What do you say now?
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-10-16 11:10|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-10-16 11:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Real-World Haedline "NoKo uses entire population as hostages"
Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-10-16 11:24||   2006-10-16 11:24|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 Jackal - I say go for it! :-D
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2006-10-16 12:26|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]  2006-10-16 12:26|| Front Page Top

#15 uh, huh! I think we will see nothing but non-stop MSM coverage of how much these sanctions are going to hurt the poor starving North Koreans. It's because they on the left are so caring and we are not, don'tcha see? (of course, it will be necessary to ignore the fact that only the Christian news channels and conservative blogs have been the voices calling out in the wilderness about this genocide for 15 years!) I expect liberalhawk should be here real soon to tell us how important of an issue this is now. He's always right on cue with the talking points of the day. And of course Alec Baldwin will soon be front and center stage to praise Kim Jong Il's beautiful communist system to call attention to how uncaring and cruel the Bush administrations policies are.

Haven't heard much about Darfur lately. Must not be politically useful anymore.
Posted by anon 2006-10-16 12:50||   2006-10-16 12:50|| Front Page Top

#16 psst... lopt (thanks!)
Posted by anon 2006-10-16 12:52||   2006-10-16 12:52|| Front Page Top

#17 What about the argument that these 'poor huddled masses' are in no small way responsible for the type of government they have? So the NKors don't like their oppressive, evil, totalitarian governmental cult of personality? Fine. Are they willing to lay down their lives to rid themselves of it? Sometimes that's what it takes. Ditto for Iran. Ditto for all the nations run by two bit thugs. We have what we have because at some time in the past, someone was willing to DIE for what they believe. There's no free lunch. Don't want sanctions to 'hurt' you, NKors? Stop being cowards and overthrow the regime, with nothing but human waves if necessary.
Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-10-16 15:04||   2006-10-16 15:04|| Front Page Top

#18 Hey, another "humanitarian crisis".
Did the cancel the one in Gaza?
Posted by tu3031 2006-10-16 17:04||   2006-10-16 17:04|| Front Page Top

#19 No, they trot it out only when the 'eeevil Zionists' are involved.
Posted by Pappy 2006-10-16 21:30||   2006-10-16 21:30|| Front Page Top

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