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Big Surprise: NK *beep* s everyone else over- again
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Bulsajo



Joined: 16 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:33 am    Post subject: Big Surprise: NK *beep* s everyone else over- again Reply with quote

Things were looking good, the other 5 parties were optimistic, but for the umpteenth time NK screws everyone else over.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080300579.html

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2005/08/04/200508040031.asp
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jajdude



Joined: 18 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a paraphrase of something I read in the IHT paper last weekend.

(In an interview)

Nk guy: "All our problems are caused by the world's hostility towards us..."

I laughed out loud at that.
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keithinkorea



Joined: 17 Mar 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The best thing that the world can do is ignore North Korea. By that I mean, you don't exist do you? No rice for you! You need oil? Well, we all do.Who are you anyway?

Blockade the norks, put huge pressure on the Chinese-who are pissed off with them anyway. No more extortion. SK should pull all investment out of the Kangseong. You can't negotiate with these scum.

No more aid, unless it is accountable. This is why the WFP has lost so many sponsors, there are too many deserving candidates for food, why give it to a belligerant bully who cant feed its people because they like to spend all their money on the 'military first policy'.

No more food. A trade embargo. Refusal of all 'civilised' countries who deal with the nork scumbags to be admitted into any FTA agreement.

The Nork government needs to be punished. The people wont suffer any more than they are suffering now.

Big hairy bollox to North Korea. If they want to be treated like a civilised country then they should start acting like one.

Let's get a petition together to stop any more money flowing to the most despicable regime in the world.This regime makes good old Saddam look like father xmas.
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Wrench



Joined: 07 Apr 2005

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sactions are way more effective then open warfare. They should stop delivering all aid. It would take less then a couple years and DPRK would be reduced into a wasteland. Even if ROK still give aid it wouldn't be enough sustain them, best thing you could hope for would be a revolution.
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Ajarn Miguk



Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:17 pm    Post subject: Shocked Reply with quote

I am shocked, totally shocked, by this development. Rolling Eyes
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Captain Corea



Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 5:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The majority of aide/trade comes from China, how would anyone stop that ?
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rok_the-boat



Joined: 24 Jan 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 6:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not even worth following the stories anymore. A non-decision is suitable for all since only action will bring anything about.
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 7:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

jajdude wrote:
Here's a paraphrase of something I read in the IHT paper last weekend.
(In an interview)
Nk guy: "All our problems are caused by the world's hostility towards us..."
I laughed out loud at that.


Do Koreans seem to blame others for problems more than others from various countries? Do Koreans avoid taking appropriate responsibility?

Consider this quote:
"Koreans tend to think the problem is caused by someone else, that it does not lie within the Self," Professor Chey Jean-yung said. Just about every Korean suffers from soul-deadening mental, physical or emotional tiredness. "But first of all we must do complete self-examination. Our history testifies that Korean people have lacked serious self-examination," Professor Rhee Dong-shick explained. Due to political hard times, dirty money and competition people feel that they are not being treated nicely.
By Lizette Potgieter, Korea Times (March 18, 2004)
http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/culture/200403/kt2004031817153511680.htm
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rapier



Joined: 16 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

-as I say, brinkmanship, stubborness, and a deep seated unwillingness to co-operate with any foreign idea/initiative forms the basis of the korean character.
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Kuros



Joined: 27 Apr 2004

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here's a view of North Korea's behavior in terms of receiving aid and 'trading' by a Russian analyst.
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Paji eh Wong



Joined: 03 Jun 2003

PostPosted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 11:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From the above article

Quote:
Over time, the payment issue had become ingrained in the thinking of North Korean leaders. It seems they came to assume that foreigners should be willing to accept the North Korean trade conditions and would be not paid at all if North Korea was especially short of money.


N Korea is what you get when you run a country like a hagwon.
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Ya-ta Boy



Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994