Posted on 06/24/2010 11:58:03 AM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Cash-strapped North Korea demanded on Thursday that the United States pay almost $65 trillion in compensation for six decades of hostility.
The cost of the damage done by the United States since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $64.96 trillion, the official news agency said, in a report on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-53 Korean War.
The figure includes $26.1 trillion arising from US "atrocities" which left more than five million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing, KCNA said.
Six decades of US sanctions had caused a loss of $13.7 trillion by 2005 while property losses were estimated at $16.7 dollars, said the agency which also listed a large number of smaller claims.
North Koreans have "the justifiable right" to receive the compensation for their blood, it said.
The war started on June 25, 1950, with a North Korean invasion approved by the then-Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
The Communist country insists that South Korea and its US ally instigated the conflict, in which a US-led United Nations force fought for the South and China backed the North.
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Hey Kim,
We dropped your package off at the Space Station... feel free to drop by and pick it up.
Obama is far too good a negotiator to fall for this! He will counter-offer to “split the difference” and pay them just $32.5 trillion. Then he’ll go on national TV and brag about how his administration “saved” us 32.5 trillion dollars. Just like if he had not done the stimulus every single person in the USA would be unemployed by now, by his way of reckoning.
Let’s send them BHO. He wants to lead a communist/socialist country and knows how to get, use and spend everyone elses money. Should be worth that much to NK.
Wish in one hand and crap in the other , and see which fills up faster.
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