"North Korea test-fires missiles into sea"
"by Blaine Harden, Washington Post | March 29, 2008
TOKYO - North Korea test-fired a volley of missiles into the sea yesterday and warned that it might stop disabling its nuclear facilities unless the United States drops its demands for more details about the North's nuclear arsenal....
Oh, so that's why it is leading my Zionist-controlled world section.
The truculent actions taken by North Korea in the past two days suggest that leader Kim Jong Il, after a relatively placid stretch of cooperative diplomacy, is increasingly peeved by demands from the United States and South Korea....
South Korea's new president, Lee Myung-bak, who was sworn in last month, is taking a much tougher line than his predecessors in dealing with the North. Lee's government has said it will condition food aid and economic assistance on human rights and on timely dismantlement of the North's nuclear program.
The thought of the West complaining about human rights these days makes me want to puke!
This guy sounds like an American stooge, which is why I am now doubting their election!
Does it never end, readers?
This week's flare-up in tension on the Korean peninsula comes at an unusually stressful time for Kim's government. It is facing dire food shortages due to weather-related crop failures, the soaring world price of food, and declines in aid from South Korea, China, and the UN World Food Program.
This is the pits right here.
I don't give a fuck what the regime is accused of; SEND THOSE HUNGRY PEOPLE SOME FOOD!
We got BILLIONS for OCCUPATIONS, BILLIONS for BANKS, BILLIONS for Iz-ray-HELL, but the world can't find any food for starving people?
Oh, that's right, we burned up the corn driving on the highway!
The shortages are expected to reach their peak late this summer - at a time when China, the North's closest ally and primary benefactor, will be hosting the Olympics.
Analysts say that China expects Kim's government not to allow disturbances inside North Korea that could, during the games, send hungry refugees spilling across the border into China. Why should the situation even come to that? I'm tired of manufactured enemies, readers. Why the
For reasons that have not been explained publicly, China has been supplying less food assistance in the past three years to North Korea, according to figures compiled by the World Food Program.
At the same time, China has placed tariffs on food exports. Combined with much higher grain prices on world markets, the 22 percent Chinese tariff has substantially reduced the impoverished North's capacity to buy food from there.
Maybe China is being squeezed just like the rest of the world, assholes.
And besides, since when is the North Korean starvation just China's problem?
Just another day in the Zionist War Daily!
Perhaps more important, South Korea has delayed the delivery of the free fertilizer that the North has come to rely on. The World Food Program has warned that the North this summer will have about 25 percent less food than it needs to feed the country's 23 million people.
Most of the severely affected people are in rural northern areas of the country, but a South Korean aid group said this month that food shortages are also affecting the country's elite in the capital.
Oh, the FOOD LEVER to create COUP CONDITIONS, right?
And if that is true, imagine how emaciated the peasantry is!!!!
Somebody send North Korea a plate of food, please!!!
With the near-collapse of the state-controlled economy in the North and a sharp increase in corruption among local police, analysts say widespread discontent over food shortages - especially if it spreads among the urban elite - has the potential to destabilize Kim's government.
And if they crackdown, as any government would, they will be reamed up and down the Jew War Pages, too!!!!
And that siege of Gaza, how's that going, Iz-ray-HELL?
There have also been reports that North Korean military and industrial officials are unhappy with his government for granting access to US diplomats to visit a missile factory. A statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry warned that the United States is endangering an agreement brokered last year by six nations."
The little guy, the "Korean" as Bush says, may be in a bit of trouble there, huh?
How's he going to be the butcher of Asia if he's deposed?
And I really don't care what any government has done, readers.
FOOD SHOULD NEVER BE A WEAPON, but unfortunately, it all-too-often IS!!!
