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Offending their most powerful (and one of few) allies? I wonder why.
1 posted on 05/17/2012 5:44:18 AM PDT by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell

Maybe or China trying to make NK look like China doesn’t control them.


2 posted on 05/17/2012 5:46:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If you really want to annoy someone, point out something obvious that they are trying hard to ignore)
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To: Pinkbell

This might be the best thing to ever happen to those fishermen.


3 posted on 05/17/2012 5:47:06 AM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: Pinkbell

how is this different than the Somali piracy?


5 posted on 05/17/2012 6:00:14 AM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: Pinkbell
For a time, when China would send a train load of emergency food to North Korea, the North Koreans would refuse to return the Chinese train.

Talk about whackos!!

7 posted on 05/17/2012 6:03:24 AM PDT by blam
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To: Pinkbell

Kim Jong Un is only 29 years old and by all accounts was a dunce at school. Too young and stupid to know how to run a country, even a totalitarian one...


9 posted on 05/17/2012 6:13:38 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: Pinkbell
demanded payment of 1.2 million yuan ($189,800) for releasing them, then cut their price to 900,000 yuan

A twenty five percent discount, huh? They must be "lousy" fishermen.

10 posted on 05/17/2012 6:17:56 AM PDT by John123 (US$ - I owe you nothing. Euro - Who owes you nothing.)
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To: Pinkbell

North Korea defies description.

Socialism is madness and wickedness in state form; North Korea is all that in its purest.


12 posted on 05/17/2012 6:22:17 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Pinkbell

My face pisses me off. I think I’ll cut off my nose!


14 posted on 05/17/2012 6:27:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The so-called 'mainstream' media has gone from "biased" straight to "utterly surreal".)
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To: Pinkbell
1.2 million yuan ($189,800)

Did Ronrey Jr. wreck the old Mercedes?

15 posted on 05/17/2012 6:49:57 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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