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Gonz

Gonz

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Isn't that why the US is hated? We feed the enemies population.

UK Independent said:
Seven million Koreans facing starvation
By Jasper Becker in Beijing
05 January 2003

The United Nations food agency warned yesterday that supplies for some seven million people, a third of North Korea's population, will run out early next month without furtheraid. The news could worsen the crisis over North Korea's nuclear threats.

"We only have firm commitments for 35,000 tons. This will be finished in early February, and then we might have to close shop," said Gerald Bourke, the spokesman for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Beijing. South Korea stopped food deliveries two months ago, after Pyongyang admitted running a secret nuclear weapons programme. Japan suspended aid after North Korea admitted kidnapping Japanese citizens.

The WFP has cut three million people off from its aid programme. The hardest-hit are townspeople who can expect to get only 270 grams a day through North Korea's public distribution system, half the standard emergency food ration. The UN scaled back its 2003 appeal for North Korea by 16 per cent, to 512,000 tons of grain, but only the European Union and Italy individually have so far responded.

North Korea has suffered from famine for a decade, and at least two million people have died of starvation. The US has been the largest contributor to emergency food deliveries over the past seven years which have fed nine million people a year. Although George Bush has said the US will not withhold food, the US Agency for International Development began insisting last June that North Korea meet the same conditions for aid that are mandatory elsewhere, such as providing a list of beneficiaries and unimpeded access for aid monitors. On this issue, however, as with efforts to defuse the nuclear crisis, there is deadlock.

Last month North Korea expelled International Atomic Energy Authority monitors and restarted its Yongbyon plant, signalling its intention to build a nuclear arsenal. As the regime slips further into isolation, with just two flights a week to Pyongyang, South Korea has begun a round of diplomatic meetings to find a solution. It held talks yesterday in Moscow and has also dispatched a mission to Washington.

According to a South Korean newspaper, Munhwa Ilbo, Seoul is presenting a "three-stage" mediation proposal – a US guarantee of the North's security and fuel oil supplies in return for an end to the nuclear weapons programme; international economic assistance; and a multinational security guarantee for the North, including from China and Russia.

But the Bush administration has repeated that it will not negotiate another deal with North Korea, which it says cheated on a 1994 pact. "We have no intention to sit down and bargain again, to pay for this horse again," said the State Department spokesman, Richard Boucher. "We are not entering into negotiations ... to get them to commit to something that they've already committed to."

North Korea blames the US for the dispute, which it said yesterday was serious and unpredictable. Its ambassador to China repeated demands that Washington agree to a non-aggression treaty.
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This is just plain silly. When will you yanks realize that you shouldn't try to help those who won't help themselves.
 
most of us need to be hit in the head with a 2x4 before we realize there was someone talking.
 
Professur said:
This is just plain silly. When will you yanks realize that you shouldn't try to help those who won't help themselves.
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Alot of citizens here have known this for years.
It's the politicians (on both sides of the isle) that won't give up
the "save the world" idea.:banghead: :disgust:
 
you may or may not realize it but there are people right here in the US starving and the government isn't doing a fucking thing about it

congress sat on their ass when the last session ended and let a shitload of people go without money from unemployment benefits that ran out. they didn't care that AMERICAN families were spending the holidays with nothing. they'd much rather kiss some korean's ass and give them food in exchange for not nuking our ass.

i didn't even mention the homeless population in the US.

i have an idea. why not make politicans work for free? they are all a bunch of stuck up assholes anyway.
 
s4 said:
i have an idea. why not make politicans work for free? they are all a bunch of stuck up assholes anyway.
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OOh, that's a good idea...their performance should improve drastically when they don't get paid.:confuse3:
 
Nobody has stated we'd feed them, but that's how it'll end up. USA=humanitarian:rolleyes:

There are very few starving people in the US. Those that are do it mostly by choice. Hell, there's more edible crap in a McDonalds dumpster than some third world countries produce in a year. There are plenty of jobs to be had in the US & no need to have the unemployment run out & then starve. Is it the job you want? Quite possibly, no. That is not the same as no jobs. Mortgage to high? Sell. There are always possibilities.
 
i usually don't read the rw forum...always somethin' pissin' me off with world news and shit
 
They want to nuke us and we're giving them food?
What is wrong with that?
I mean, it's important they have full bellies whne they try to kill us...
 
i think N. Korea is something to have more concern about than Iraq. some expert on CNN said the N. Koreans are working on a missile that could reach the Western US.
 
They don't have to reach the US. Japan is our responsibility to protect.
 
maybe so, but the threat of reaching the US is enough to get most Americans anxious, including myself
 
Then why aren't we nuking thme if they are such a threat. Yeah, a bunch of terriorists might die. We shouldn't wait until they kill tons of people, we should kill them while we can.
 
Altron said:
Then why aren't we nuking thme if they are such a threat. Yeah, a bunch of terriorists might die. We shouldn't wait until they kill tons of people, we should kill them while we can.
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i'm not sure i can recall a time when north lorea has had strong links with terrorism. if north lorea as a country started a war then i think it would be termed an act of war not an act of terrorism.
 
s4 said:
i think N. Korea is something to have more concern about than Iraq. some expert on CNN said the N. Koreans are working on a missile that could reach the Western US.
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please give me some more proof that they would use nuclear weapons against the US...They might not be on a very friendly basis with the US, but they aren't stupid. i'm not really convinced they are willing to start a nuclear war with the US because they KNOW they can't win it. and what cause is worth letting your own country being bombed with nuclear weapons?

i think it would be better to make a significant difference between owning certain weapons and having certain military capabilities, and the actual threat of using them.

with the cold war there was a great chance that russia would use their nuclear weapons. it was a superpower with a lot of military power, and a lot of reasons.
those 3 things don't apply to north korea.
 
i said that one expert said that they will have the capability soon to reach the US with missiles. i didn't say that they would necessarily use them, however the threat that they might someday is enough for concern.

another concern is that N. Korea is a country that sells weapons to other countries and nuclear technology could be spread to nations that do not have it.
 
N Korea always does something like this when they need help. It's better to let the other side offer help than to risk losing face by asking for it.
 
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