North Korea seeks immediate food aid after floods

[KhornateMonkey]

The United Nations says North Korea has requested immediate food aid after devastating floods last month. [READ MORE]

[Teddy]

Interesting. They lock themselves out from the world refusing aid to help feed their citizens, yet floods cause some extensive damage and NOW they want help?

[Kizzu]

Yeahhhh, good luck with that...

[[SE]Dr_Pepper27]

sucks to be north korea i guess.

[JayL]

They lock themselves out from the world

They shield themselves from Uncle Sam's influence, but Uncle Sam can not stand it. Same thing was with Qing China in the 19th century - they were minding their own business, but John Bull would not stand a country ignoring him.

and NOW they want help?

What's your point? Any minor country would request international aid for such a situation. Not everyone can go through floods like it was just a small scratch.

[[SE]Dr_Pepper27]

they had aid and they blew it.

[JayL]

they had aid and they blew it.

They ''blew'' it because the ''generous'' aid givers wanted North Korea to strip itself of its defense (so that later the order in there could be completely disrupted).

[Jack Rosso]

I think they should get help, afterall we can't blame their citizens for what their government is doing.. and THOSE citizens are currently in need of help, i think that King jong un doesnt seek for immediate food aid...

[Daniel_Bradford]

this crazy Kim Jong ass should think to resell his nuclear bombs then think about buying food ...

[Pandalink]

They shield themselves from Uncle Sam's influence, but Uncle Sam can not stand it.

They're completely locking themselves out from the world with their strongly isolationist policy. What has it brought them? Look at how much better South Korea is than the absolute disaster than North Korea is.

But then, I'm arguing politics with someone who has an avatar depicting a man worse and more evil than Hitler, so maybe we're never going to be on the same page here.

[Wolfe]

They shield themselves from Uncle Sam's influence, but Uncle Sam can not stand it. Same thing was with Qing China in the 19th century - they were minding their own business, but John Bull would not stand a country ignoring him.

What's your point? Any minor country would request international aid for such a situation. Not everyone can go through floods like it was just a small scratch.

Right, because dictating every move their citizens do is shielding themselves from the americans..

Truth be told Jay, you're just as paranoid about Capitalism trying to fuck everyone, as americans we're about communists everywhere, and because of that, Brazil went into a military government, causing the death of hundreds of people.

[JayL]

a man worse and more evil than Hitler

Hello there... neo nazi?

Look at how much better South Korea is than the absolute disaster than North Korea is.

What means to be ''good'' for you? Be a vassal of USA? Because if that's the criteria then yes South Korea meets it far far more than North Korea.
And why do you define as more ''worse and evil than Hitler'' the man who commanded the only non-island in Europe which was not overrun by Nazis?

Truth be told Jay, you're just as paranoid about Capitalism trying to f**k everyone, as americans we're about communists everywhere, and because of that, Brazil went into a military government, causing the death of hundreds of people.

Not to sanctify non-capitalist systems, but capitalism does f**k a lot of people over. Concept of capitalism is profit, and profit can only exist if you are making it at someone else's expense.

[Wolfe]

Hello there... neo nazi?

What means to be ''good'' for you? Be a vassal of USA? Because if that's the criteria then yes South Korea meets it far far more than North Korea.
And why do you define as more ''worse and evil than Hitler'' the man who commanded the only non-island in Europe which was not overrun by Nazis?

Not to sanctify non-capitalist systems, but capitalism does f**k a lot of people over. Concept of capitalism is profit, and profit can only exist if you are making it at someone else's expense.

Oh yes, capitalism does suck, but Communism is certainly not the way to go.


and stop with the bullshit of being a vassal of the USA, noone sucks it up to them anymore, their just another country, you on the other hand, should really think about your ideals, if you believe letting your people have a shitty working life, with no access to free speech, internet, tv or anything, just to "Show the finger" to the US, then you're an idiot.

[JayL]

Make France and Britain beef with each other. Make them threat each other. Then make USA meet the both of them and tell them to shut the fuck up. Then reconsider it.

Shitty working life? Yes working is really shitty indeed, it would be much better if you could sit on your frontyard whole day and eat pudding.
No access to free speech? Yes, let's instead make the media free and later accuse it of manipulating everything to their interest.
No access to internet, TV? Yes, let's make it widespread and then watch whole day people telling you that sitting on the computers is not healthy.
Just show the finger to US? More than that - but I guess the milestones of non-capitalist countries (healthcare and education) are too complex to be understood and considered.

[SugarD]

Interesting. They lock themselves out from the world refusing aid to help feed their citizens, yet floods cause some extensive damage and NOW they want help?

Different leader, differing views, I guess.