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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Trouble In Paradise?
North Korea has recalled its ambassador to a Southeast Asian country to protest its role in the secret airlift of more than 460 North Korea refugees to the South, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday.
Seoul brought the defectors to South Korea in July from a country that diplomatic sources in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, and human rights activists say was Vietnam. Vietnam has not confirmed or denied it was involved....
In angry outbursts rare in recent years against South Korea, the North has called July’s airlift “premeditated abduction and terrorism” and it later boycotted high-level talks.
It also criticized Vietnam by name, notably on August 3 in a long statement from the North Korean Foreign Ministry on South Korean and U.S. involvement in the airlift.
“What should not be overlooked is that Vietnam conspired with them in this case,” the ministry said, adding it had information to prove Vietnam was involved.“Through its involvement in the case Vietnam self-exposed that it can stoop to any perfidious action, discarding elementary sense of obligation and morality between the states, in order to meet its own interests,” the ministry said in language that was highly unusual given it was directed at a fellow communist state.
In the same article, it’s noted that South Korea is currently dickering with Vietnam over the purchase of 100,000 tons of rice, which South Korea plans to donate to North Korea as humanitarian aid.
So:
- North Korea’s people continue to starve from Pyongyang’s Stalinist policies;
- But the North Korean dictatorship is angry that anyone should want to leave for a place where there’s food;
- ...and especially angry that another Communist state helped those folks to leave;
- Meanwhile, that other, “perfidious” Communist state is conducting negotiations the result of which will be a huge gift of food aid to the North;
- ...from South Korea, which the North has sworn to overrun.
Do we need any further proof that North Korea is in the grip of a gang of psychotics? Is there really any point in trying to talk such people out of their lust for weapons of mass destruction?
Eight million North Koreans are slowly starving to death as this goes on. If North Korea actually does have nukes, or acquires them soon, America will lose a city soon afterward. If so, we’ll have to euthanize their entire country. Remember that, all you Bill Clinton fans. Remember that, you mealy-mouthed hypocrites of the Norwegian Nobel Committee who awarded Jimmy Carter the Nobel Peace Prize.
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