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| THIS POST SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TWO DAYS AGO by Seni 12/21/2002, 3:48am PST | ||||
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Sorry to spill this genius here instead of at Caltrops where it belongs, but here's 5 abductees remove N Korean badges, say they'll stay in Japan Okay kids let's take a quick glance back at this situation. A few months ago Japan and North Korea had a summit - the leaders of both countries met in North Korea and made some resolutions. They were fairly incredible resolutions. Japan, who never says sorry, agreed to provide aid possibly in the tens of billions of dollars to North Korea by way of belated wartime recompensation for the years in which Japan colonized the Korean penninsula. This in and of itself is fairly newsworthy. But then North Korea, who had walked out on previous negotiations of this nature for over twenty years, admitted that YES it HAD kidnapped Japanese citizens and YES some of them are still alive and YES they can go visit Japan. This in and of itself is fairly newsworthy. So the abductees go to Japan. What Japan do they go to? They go to a Japan in the midst of an economic crisis; a Japan in which the ruling party, the LDP, which has had a stranglehold on Japanese politics and governance since World War II, is starting to lose its grip. What issue is winning big support for the up-and-coming parties? The American Security Blanket and how the opponents want to get rid of it and start a real military again. No no, hold on to your tights, it gets better. Remember our President GW Bush? Remember how he said North Korea was part of the Axis of Evil? Remember that? Okay remember who, along with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, banked 80% of the costs for US involvement in the Gulf War? Did you remember it was Japan? Remember how good that was for the Japanese industrial-export-based economy? Remember the War on Terrorism? Huh? About how it's 1) multilateral and 2) expensive and 3) liable to last a while? NO WAIT THERE'S MORE. North Korea, in spite of US and Japanese oil embargos which go into effect because of it, is starting to produce nuclear power again. The summit declaration inhibits N. Korean production of long-range missiles - the kind that hit the US - and says nothing about short-range missiles - the kind that hit Japan. The kind, like the Noodong missile, of which there are already at least one hundred already pointed at Japan. I'm not making this shit up, folks. So what does the newsclipping up top have to do with all this? The North Koreans have been demanding their abductees back almost since the moment they hit Japanese soil. The French Mistake, la! |
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THIS POST SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TWO DAYS AGO by 12/21/2002, 3:48am PST  Re: THIS POST SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TWO DAYS AGO by 12/21/2002, 3:49am PST Yes it does, black on black, mozilla 1.x -nt- by 12/21/2002, 3:51am PST Blockquote = CSS paragraph breaker? by 12/21/2002, 3:57am PST Yes by 12/21/2002, 3:08pm PST Re: THIS POST SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TWO DAYS AGO by 12/21/2002, 10:22am PST Yes, the seni filter is working. WORKING! AHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHA! -nt- by 12/21/2002, 3:00pm PST |
