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 Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 12:21 am Post subject: Venezuelan Leader to Visit Kim Jong-il |
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Venezuelan Leader to Visit Kim Jong-il
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a fierce critic of the United States, said Saturday he will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Observers speculate that ideas for cooperation between the two countries could include an oil-for-missiles deal.
Chavez, who has mentioned plans to visit North Korea several times, told reporters the trip would be about bilateral agreements in technology and science. He did not specify a date.
The two countries forged diplomatic ties in 1974 and have strengthened their relationship since Chavez took office in 1998. In September last year, Yang Hyong-sop, the vice president of the North Korea�s Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly, visited Caracas and stressed the need for the two countries to respond jointly to �American pressure and threats.� About a month later, a North Korean economic delegation visited the south American country.
Guillermo Garcia Ponce, a former leader of Venezuela�s Communist Party has reportedly visited North Korea several times, and Pyongyang will reportedly open an embassy in Caracas in the near future, a government official said.
Some experts say the two countries could form an anti-American front while exchanging oil for missiles. A former U.S. Army officer said missile technology was a likely tradable good. He quipped the North �is unlikely to export Kimchi,� Korea�s traditional pickled side dish.
The Venezuelan government has been boosting its military strength lately, buying 100,000 Russian-made AK-103 rifles along with a license to manufacture them and expressing interest in buying Russian-made Sukhoi fighter jets. Chavez has said he wants to buy more weapons to repel a U.S. invasion.
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It's official.
Chavez is stupid.  |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:39 am Post subject: |
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| The enemy of my enemy is probably a slime-ball as well. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 1:45 am Post subject: |
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| Oil for weapons, sounds just like Saudi Arabia, or Sudan or Iraq or another place on Earth. |
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jaganath69
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds like an opportune moment to lob a cruise missile into Pyongyang. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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Sounds like an opportune moment to lob a cruise missile into Pyongyang.
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I don't think that's likely to happen, but it they were somehow to arrange to get that Iranian guy to join them, I think the temptation would be well-nigh irresistable. |
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fiveeagles
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Location: Vancouver
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:04 am Post subject: |
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Sounds like an opportune moment to lob a cruise missile into Pyongyang.
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I don't think that's likely to happen, but it they were somehow to arrange to get that Iranian guy to join them, I think the temptation would be well-nigh irresistable. |
The New York Times would probably tip them off though.  Especially since Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore would be there stroking the pr machine. |
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Mitch Comestein
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:37 am Post subject: |
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| fiveeagles wrote: |
| The New York Times would probably tip them off though. Especially since Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore would be there stroking the pr machine. |
Hahahahaha!  |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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| Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 8:54 am Post subject: |
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| Mitch Comestein wrote: |
| fiveeagles wrote: |
| The New York Times would probably tip them off though. Especially since Cindy Sheehan and Michael Moore would be there stroking the pr machine. |
Hahahahaha! |
Comedy, indeed. |
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