Re: US Bans Luxury Items To North Korea -- BWAHAHAHA!
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Re: US Bans Luxury Items To North Korea -- BWAHAHAHA!         

Group: alt.society.liberalism · Group Profile
Author: brainfart
Date: Jan 27, 2007 21:59

Way Back Jack wrote...
> Uh, how many North Koreans are using luxury items? What a load of
> chickenshit. America has become soooo soft. What N. Korea and Kim
> Jong need is a dose of nukes. I want to see Pyongyang glow. Glow,
> baby, glow.

Kim Jong Il and the inner party elite use those luxury items. I was
reading several articles describing how party members are crossing
into Chinese border towns and purchasing everything from luxury cars
to fur coats to gourmet food to gold jewelry and paying for it in
cash (though the currency wasn't mentioned).

Cutting off the luxury items is very important because Kim Jong Il is
very spoiled and stuffs his face with caviar while his subjects starve.
What the articles described about the shopping sprees as well as what
I've seen in the several DPRK documentaries on television constitutes
a crime against humanity of the greatest magnitude. There really is
no choice but to blockade DPRK completely, the people can't starve any
more than they're already starving, and once the inner party members
are reduced to eating grass like the rest of the North Korean people,
they will quickly depose Kim Jong Il.
>
> _____________
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070126/ts_nm/korea_north_sanctions_dc
>
> U.S. bans luxury exports to North Korea
>
> (...)
>
> The new rule says the United States will generally deny applications
> to export and re-export luxury goods to North Korea, including luxury
> automobiles, yachts, gems, jewelry, cosmetics, perfumes, furs,
> designer clothing, luxury watches, tobacco, wine, alcoholic beverages,
> recreational sports equipment and electronic software and equipment.
>
> U.S. officials argue that this will help to erode support among the
> elite for North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who enjoys the finer things
> in life and uses such gifts to curry favor with the military while
> most North Koreans live a subsistence life.
>
>
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