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Report: North Korea offers asylum to Saddam
AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | March 2, 2003

Posted on 03/01/2003 8:43:29 PM PST by HAL9000

PyongYang ready to offer asylum to Saddam, according to a businessman of Macao

An owner of casino of Macao, certain Stanley Ho Hung-sun, transmitted an offer of asylum of the North Korea to Saddam Hussein, reports Sunday South China Morning Post.Ho Hung-sun specified with the daily newspaper that high persons in charge north-Korean had proposed to the head of Iraqi State and with its family a sanctuary perched on a mountain in this State stalinien."Nous must seize all the chances to arrive at peace, in particular if the good news come from the east ", indicates the newspaper quoting Ho Hung-sun."Ils (the senior officials north-Korean), continues Ho, said to me that there was really to avoid the war and that to withdraw two days before the USA and Great Britain undertake their bombardments and to decide for elections démocratiques."Ho Hung-Sun were not able to give other details on the north-Korean offer nor to say if this proposal had been formally addressed to Bagdad.Le newspaper does not specify either why it is Ho, which, in 1999 open a casino close seat of the Communist Party to Pyongyang, which was selected to play the role of messenger in this affaire.Une other offers asylum was made recently by a small city of the south of Italy, Soveria Mannelli. Its mayor, Mario Caliguiri proposed to accomodate Saddam Hussein and his close relations if they agreed to leave in exile to avoid a war with their pays.Locality of 3.500 inhabitants located in a mountainous area of Calabria, in the south of Italy, Soveria Mannelli would ensure greatest quietude the Iraqi president, ensured the municipal official when it officialized this offer the week dernière.Plus recently, the minister émirati of Information Abdallah Ben Zayed Al Nahyane had affirmed Saturday evening that countries like Koweït and Saudi Arabia approved the initiative of its country calling with a departure in exile of the president irakien.Dans a declaration with the press with El-sheik in Egypt, sheik Abdallah deplored that this initiative was not discussed during the sommet.Les the United States, which threaten to reverse by the force the mode of Saddam Hussein, had invited the top to encourage this last to leave the capacity, but several Arab countries were Friday publicly raised against such a request.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: asylum; exile; iraq; kimjongil; korea; northkorea; saddamhussein
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To: Norman Arbuthnot
Part II of the Wall Street Journal's "Macau Connection" series is missing from the FR archives, but is available here -

http://www.terravista.pt/aguaalto/2088/wsj03.html

Bill Clinton, Stanley Ho, Ng Lap Seng, Mochtar Riady, Charlie Trie, Mark Middleton, Joseph Giroir, etc. - the gang's all here.

41 posted on 03/01/2003 9:35:08 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: GoreFreeTN
I looked at the SCMP website, but can't do much without a subscription.

AFP has been wrong before - but I'd bet they have an accurate report of the SCMP article in this case.

42 posted on 03/01/2003 9:40:34 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
I swear, there only seems to be two or three degrees of separation between Bubba and any major despot or international crime lord (only half joking there).

I wonder if Slick is involved with this "deal" in any way behind the scenes?

43 posted on 03/01/2003 9:42:12 PM PST by Norman Arbuthnot
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To: HAL9000
Hal,
I have a subscription but I noticed the website hasnt been updated since Mar 1 at 6:20am. And it's already almost 14:00 Sunday afternoon there.
44 posted on 03/01/2003 9:47:14 PM PST by GoreFreeTN
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To: Rain-maker
Saddam: Rather Die Than Go Into Exile

Yeah, the Dan Rather interview - where he also said he didn't have any prohibited weapons and he would not destroy his missiles.

45 posted on 03/01/2003 9:52:42 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Just went into the subscription side of SCMP and didnt see any reference to the story in any of their sections. Could be just another red herring from our friends in the former republic of Gaul.
46 posted on 03/01/2003 9:58:29 PM PST by GoreFreeTN
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To: cmsgop
Do you think one of the conditions for asylum is that he has to get the same goofey hair cut as Kim?
47 posted on 03/01/2003 10:05:17 PM PST by Red Dog #1
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To: RobFromGa
I knew Bush was good-- but I didn't think he was this good!

I hear this and think of Bush in a bowling finals match .... winning with a 6 / 10 combination for the final spare after an Afghanistan strike.

48 posted on 03/01/2003 10:42:29 PM PST by Centurion2000 (Take charge of your destiny, or someone else will)
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To: HAL9000
In our dreams....
49 posted on 03/02/2003 4:36:40 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: wirestripper
If it werent so serious, the whole thing, (Iraq, anti-war protesters, human shields, the french, hollywood celebs) would remind me of that movie, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum!"
50 posted on 03/02/2003 5:03:38 AM PST by cardinal4 (Hollywood celebs are not relevant to Foreign Policy or National Security.)
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To: HAL9000
Good place and after Iraq we take out North Korea and Iran. Where is a killer to hide then?
51 posted on 03/02/2003 5:06:38 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: HAL9000
Well, considering Saddam is considered to be the 4th wealthiest head of state in the world, I'm sure the Potbellied Pinko in Pyongyang would welcome his blood money...
52 posted on 03/02/2003 5:09:20 AM PST by COBOL2Java
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To: HAL9000
This sounds like a joke. I actually don't believe this.
53 posted on 03/02/2003 5:30:23 AM PST by Int
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To: HAL9000
He'll flee after the campaign begins. Not before.
54 posted on 03/02/2003 6:00:28 AM PST by Man of the Right
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To: HAL9000
From DeepikaGlobal.com

Kim offers asylum to Saddam: report

HONG KONG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has offered political asylum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to a front page story in Sunday's South China Morning Post.

The bizarre tale appears to be the kind of news story that newspapers like to publish on April Fool's Day, except for one thing: it has a credible source.

He is Stanley Ho Hung-sun, the wealthy magnate who runs Macau's gambling casinos, through whom "high-level North Korean officials have offered the Iraqi dictator and his family 11th hour sanctuary in a mountain in North Korea".

Chinese billionaires like Ho do not always possess political acumen but it is usually difficult to take them for a ride. Ho told the SCMP that senior level North Korean officials "told me that there really was a chance to prevent a war and (they) said that Saddam Hussein could step down two days before the US and Britain started to bomb Iraq and he (Saddam) could call democratic elections".

Ho goes on to say that "one of the conditions of those elections would be that none of the candidates would be allowed funding from the US, ensuring that there was no American interference in a future Iraqi democratic state. Anyone who did accept money from the US would be shot"--presumably by a Saddam who had not entirely stepped down prior to the election.

Ho extolled this initiative by saying that "it could be (Saddam Hussein's) trump card. North Korea is willing to give Saddam and his family a mountain in North Korea."

The news story seems to be straight out of Ripley's "Believe It Or Not" except for one thing: Ho does have North Korean connections. The SCMP notes that in 1999 Stanley invested US$30 million in the North when he opened a Casino Pyongyang next to the Korean Workers Party headquarters.


55 posted on 03/02/2003 6:25:16 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Kim's other condition is probably that Saddam brings his $2 billion with him to North Korea.
56 posted on 03/02/2003 6:30:20 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
now who wants to be exiled to north korea????not me or anyone...
57 posted on 03/02/2003 6:51:14 AM PST by Bill Davis FR
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To: HAL9000
Two nuts in the same tree?
58 posted on 03/02/2003 6:52:42 AM PST by gulfcoast6
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To: HAL9000
You sure this isn't from The Onion? Too funny.
59 posted on 03/02/2003 6:57:33 AM PST by Rocky
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To: HAL9000
Read it thoroughly, this is what it was all about to begin with.

Hussein is using the "peace movement" to stay in power as long as possible. Why did Korea "act up" when they did? As a diversion to Iraq. So far, President Bush has all but ignore them because thay are irrational bluster.

When it becomes evident that the US and GB will attack, Hussein will go underground. We will face a final dilemma. Do we attack "leaderless Iraq" (read that kill innocent women and children in the press)? Also we will sustain our own losses.

If we don't attack he will re-emerge. If we do attack, he will show up in exile. North Korea is good for him because he will be "untouchable" for retribution and he will have the legacy he seeks...leader of the Muslims...from Korea.

How could our intelligence community be so inept as to miss this? Ask Carter who began to dismantle it then ask The Democratic controlled congresses who hobbled it, then ask Clintoon who neutered it.

60 posted on 03/02/2003 8:14:58 AM PST by pfflier
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