Message from North Korea (Mass suicides in N. Korea; even army is starving)

The Chosun Journal ^ | 14 April 2003 | Moon Kook-Han via Sin-U Nam via others

[albee]

People starving in "The Workers Paradise Of North Korea"?

Let them eat all that plutonium and uranium they have in storage to threaten us with!

[Anticommie]

Message from North Korea (Mass suicides in N. Korea; even army is starving)

Let them eat their nukes...

[Ranger]

In Bush's speach on the Abraham Lincoln, I thought it was interesting when he said that precision weapons now make it possible to target despots instead of their people. I took this to be a foreshadowing of things to come. Korea would be a perfect place for such a plan of action.

[RS]

"To call a ruthless despot a ruthless businessman is much like saying sometimes is means is not."

Not sure exactly what you mean, but his tactics in dealings with the outside world are certainly businesslike.
- Perhaps "gangsterlike" would be a closer description.

My point was to draw a distinction between him and the religious fanatics that we see in the Middle East.
Pres. Bush knows the difference, which is why they are being handled in different ways.

[gcruse]

What a selfless and generous act; to commit suicide so that
others may consume you.

Not by eating rat poison.  
You just make 'others' sick.

[TigerLikesRooster]

RE #17

In all likelihood, people mentioned in this article live in N.E. part of N. Korea. The place is furtherest away from DMZ. Besides, to get through DMZ, you have to pass layers and layers of military checkpoints, minefields, and machine gun nests. They could use boats. But boats are tightly controlled in N. Korea. Only some fishermen and their family have made it to S. Korea. But that is only after long meticulous planning.