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2011-04-29 China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea to run out of food in June: aid group
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Posted by Fred 2011-04-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
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#1 That gives them an opportunity to eat the FAT Politburo members in June. In July with the party top leadership and the Sung-Ils eaten... then the South can send food aid.
Posted by Water Modem 2011-04-29 01:30||   2011-04-29 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The Army will be starved next-to-last. The people will need guns.
Posted by gorb 2011-04-29 02:18||   2011-04-29 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 They could eat the "Elder Statesmen". Not much meat on them bones, though.
Posted by Spot 2011-04-29 09:26||   2011-04-29 09:26|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Offer them - and mean it - unlimited food, as long as it is handed out by the US inside NK. If that's not acceptable, let them starve.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-04-29 09:42||   2011-04-29 09:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Wear a sweater, and chew that bark slowly.
Posted by mojo 2011-04-29 11:02||   2011-04-29 11:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Let them eat plutonium.
Posted by crosspatch 2011-04-29 12:12||   2011-04-29 12:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Height of the 2020 North Korean draftee class - 3'6".
Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-04-29 12:36||   2011-04-29 12:36|| Front Page Top

#8 "Sorry, sir, bark's off. Got some nice rock..."
"Sedimentary, metamorphic or igneous?"
"Sedimentary, of course!"
"That's for me, then. That igneous is awful tough chewing."
Posted by Grunter 2011-04-29 12:52||   2011-04-29 12:52|| Front Page Top

#9 If/when NK is liberated, how would unification even be possible? No one in NK would have any idea how to function in a free, modern society. East Germans openly looted the homes of their West German relatives - on the grounds that they "deserved" a share of the West's wealth. What would North Koreans do (after eating enough to think clearly, that is)?
Posted by RandomJD 2011-04-29 13:50||   2011-04-29 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 As far as I can tell, it's a hostage situation. They're holding a population hostage, and demanding we supply the hostage-takers with food.

I say we start trading food for political prisoners, or hell, open borders. Family reunification, with the families reunified on the southern side of the DMZ.
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-04-29 13:55|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-04-29 13:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Great point, Mitch. That's exactly what it is.
Posted by RandomJD 2011-04-29 14:29||   2011-04-29 14:29|| Front Page Top

#12 "Hostage situation" > Yeeeeepp, and its increasingly looking like not even the DPRK Army = Armed Forces is safe.

DPRK Soldats from Middle, Lower/Working-class families repor being allowed to get out early from their mandated mil service iff they can BUY FOOD SUPPLIES FOR THE UNIT THEY WERE ASSIGNED TO
Officers, NCOS from Top-tier or Elite Families usually have no probs meeting this requirement, but are expected to procure in food quantities matching their family's political, econ status.

ANALYSTS doubt the top classes will be spared long iff the DPRK food crisis continues to worsen as anticipated, whihc may explain ...

To wit,

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUMS > CARTER: NORTH KOREAN "REGRETS" OVER SHIP SINKING [Cheonan + Yeongpyeong mil incidents].

It appears that the DPRK is publicly but informally apologizing to the ROK via ex-POTUS Jimmy Carter oer the recent incidents, but IMO its highly doubtful the ROK = Seoul will accept it in this manner. IMO SEOUL WANTS SOMETHING OFFICIAL + STRAIGHT UP FROM PYONGYANG FIRST, + IS UNLIKELY TO COMMIT TO ANY SERIOUS NUCLEAR, OTHER TALKS INVOL THE DPRK UNTIL IT DOES???

* ION SAME > JAPAN POSTPONES NUCLEAR COOLING, Brouhaha over TEPCO Executive salaries + what-to-do wid any radioactive cooling wastewater.

IMO Artic sub-read - TEPCO MAY RELEASE EXCESS RADIOACTIVE WASTEWATER INTO THE SEA AGAIN???

* SAME > TAIWAN MISSLE CAN REACH BEIJING: REPORT.

Twas repor tested already a few years back.

ARTIC read, YUH-OH???

THE CLOCK IS STEADILY GOING "TICK-TICK" AGZ CHINA, ESPEC AS PER CLOSE-N-GETTING-CLOSER DPRK COLLAPSE, VERSUS TIME-FACTORS FOR SECURING, BREAKING THE BARRIERS OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" [PLA, Trade Air + Sea "Warm Water" Ports = FAR ASIA-PACIFIC].

The clock also tolls for thee, Kimmie.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-04-29 23:26||   2011-04-29 23:26|| Front Page Top

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