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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5You'll enjoy eating rats and grass to stay alive and kissing the arse of a fat old shitbag wearing a pair of pyjamas and crap sunglasses.
Anyone advocating support for this absurd and murderous regime ought to be treated in the same manner as Holcaust deniers.
If treated decently by the international community. All they want is a stronger bargaining position because their people are starving and the country is in crisis. With the right approach and some decent humanitarian terms and allowing for the national pride thing by not insulting them then this issue is soluble. You can be certain that if kim jong il gets too far out of hand, china will sort him out pretty quick and he knows it.
They haven't even got one working missile yet. lets get it in perspective. The US on the other hand has 10000 warheads at least and about 7000+ on hair trigger. Who is the real threat to world peace? Kim jong il is not as daft as he pretends to be. It helps his bargaining position for him to be thought of as batshit insane and he knows it.
Kim jong Il is good at staying in power but shite at managing his country. Things have got out of hand for him and people are starving and it is getting to a crisis point. He is afraid he will lose power. North korea just need a decent package of foreign aid, some good economic advice on keeping people fed with NK's available resources and some respect (faked if necessary)
why not just stand back and let the NK regime fall apart? good question. Well for one thing, many more people will die of starvation. For another, kim jong il might become more of a problem if he is right up against the wall. He is less likely to be a problem to anyone if he doesn't feel threatened. He is 65, why can't we just wait him out and meanwhile soften relations, trade with and give aid to the people to make their lot better?
Now whether the US is capable of not insulting a nation and helping to secure aid for them under reasonable terms, that is another story. Probably not. They couldn't (or wouldn't!) even help their own people after Katrina.
Now if it was corporate welfare we were talking about.....no problemo!
IMHO The main issue here is US goading of north korea in pursuit of their "create more bogeymen" strategy to allow them to ramp up their arms budget and clamp down on the constitution back home, and maybe generate another lucrative battlefront with all the fat corporate no bid contracts that brings. Also it is in line with US policy of coming down hard on any nation with a different system of government that does not play ball with american business interests.
They (North Korea) are a nation in crisis. They have little left to lose, the people are hungry, the regime leader feels his position is at risk, they are being goaded. this is how the situation will grow into something worse.
Why don't china help them? I'm not sure. Perhaps they are hoping other people will spend the money instead or they are waiting to see what the US will do or they are in with the US on it . Their behaviour is hard to decipher. Instead of sabre rattling, perhaps the US would be better off pressuring china to create and implement a suitable aid package with the assistance of the international community.
Yes kim jong il is an awful leader but the US have happily propped up similar people. A few personally signed copies of hollywood DVD's would probably please him, and maybe bring liz taylor,sean connery or michael jackson along to the talks!
Surely at the end of the day this should be about what is best for the starving and long suffering north korean people and not just our dislike for their nasty leader or america's financial greed.
interesting article in guardian. Kim has backed off. US pressured china, china pressured Kim. Cheap oil, aid and border enforcement are the key.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/korea/article/0,,1927994,00.h...ed=12
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north korean telly yesterday.