Posted on 02/09/2011 10:43:51 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
North Korea is going around the world seeking food aid, including from the United States, but apparently without much result, a Seoul daily reported Thursday, citing multiple sources. "Since the end of last year, North Korea has been asking the U.S., international organizations and almost every country it has diplomatic ties with, including nations in Europe and Southeast Asia, to assist it with food," an unidentified source told the JoongAng Daily.
A South Korean government source backed that up, telling the daily, "North Korea is asking the United States and European Union countries for free food aid while asking developing countries in regions like Southeast Asia for food that it promises to pay back later."
The requests started in the second half of last year, but have become frantic over the last two months, the source said, adding that as far as he knew, no country has responded to the request.
Citing a Washington source, the JoongAngIlbo said North Korea officially requested U.S. food aid on Jan. 14 in New York when Han Sang Ryol, its deputy ambassador to the United Nations, met with Robert King, the U.S. envoy on North Korea's human rights situation, who is currently visiting Seoul.
It said there is speculation that King's six-day visit to Seoul, which ends Friday, is related to that food request.
In an interview Wednesday with Yonhap News Agency in Seoul, King was quoted as saying that while no decision has been made on resuming food aid to North Korea, U.S. policy "is that when we provide assistance, humanitarian assistance, it is based on need and no political consideration should be involved."
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Up until recently I don’’t think the people would cooperate for the depths of their brainwashing...however hunger and death can shake hard and strong enough that this time I think the people will revolt...and what I think the world is waiting for them to do.
With the military and the elites now having to ration food...they may be forced to take out Kim themselves.
We should just be dropping parachute skids of food, M-16s, ammo along
with simple instructions to “kill the bastards that are starving you” at
about midnight.
It would all be over by noon. They’d kill most of the SOBs party/NK Army SOBs
by then.
OK, it’s probaby a fantasy...but it’s a beautiful revenge fantasy.
Of course, the Marxist in The Oval Office will never try such a thing.
He would not to offend his buddies in North Korea.
Good plan !!!
I’m sure you are correct on all counts, but in my mind, they don’t have to reunify with South Korea; they only have to kick the current regime to the curb.
I understand that is much easier said than done, but the North Koreans are running out of options.
They’re starving, they are repressed to the point of death, and China isn’t in a position to cushion the regime’s bad/dangerous decisions indefinitely.
I don’t know how they’d manage to do it, but How can they continue down the same road they’ve been on?
I think a reunified Korea would ultimately rival China as the dominant power in the region. It happened in Germany, it can happen in Korea. Germany is far better off now btw.
Let them eat yellow cake.
Feed those who plot to kill you?
Sure.
The Kims step down as Nork god-kings, the new government begins unification negotiations with the PRC or South Korea (their choice...) and the US takes control of all of North Korea’s nuclear sites and materials (until negotiations are concluded), and, when this is all accomplished, we start shipping food.
IN the mean time, starve and freeze in the dark.
I don’t see a comparison of the two peoples. IMO N.Korea’s people have had 50 yrs. of brutality and brainwashing. Their entire infastructure is gone as well. How do you catch a people up living in an era 50 yrs. ago? Not to mention rewire their thinking about the rest of the world?
A mindboggling task. But I am hopeful something can be done just the same. Horrible state of affairs there.
I’m sure that China would have a say in the situation....as well Japan and other surrounding nations.
That part surprises me a little. I would think there would be a number of countries willing to help N.K., if for no other reason than to encourage N.K. to keep punching S.K. (and the U.S.) in the eye.
While that might mean that the N.K. people could eat again, it would also mean the S.K. people would be on the hook for feeding them. Does S.K. really want that?
Plus the leader in the north will never give up power peacefully, whether it's the current dictator or a future one.
China will have a say no matter what. But unless they’re ponying up the food, it shouldn’t be much of a say...
I don’t give a rat’s a** what south Korea wants frankly. I don’t want to get involved in another war for them. If they believe that the current situation is preferable to peaceful reunification, then it’s time for us to leave as far as I’m concerned. If they want blood and death, give it to them, but I see no reason for us to share in it.
They are eating their children to survive the starvation RC. Something has to be done! Do you honesty believe those people can fight with the hunger they are enduring?
But then they do have nukes so we’d have to disarm them some way before even going in there.
It is such a mind boggling situation with no easy answers. But something does have to be done.
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