Will the Canadian government reconsider the $9.3 million in aid it delivers to North Korea? Will the charities that spend much of that money criticize the government? And will the government attempt to block aid to North Korea, even private craft?
Good questions with no easy answers.
Don’t they use nukes to warm up the cheese fondue in North Korea?
Oh yeah, the $9.3 million is for the NKns to buy our cheddar cheese for the the fondue.
In short Steve, no to all of the above. Call me cynical, but I doubt most of that money ever makes it to N. Korea. Any that does goes for new platform shoes for Kimmy Baby, not food for the masses.
The Powers That Be won’t want to upset the apple cart (or the gravy train?) over a little bitty nuke.
Bout time folks started to wake up to this BS!
We would do well to eliminate the so called aid being sent to China as well!
BTW – Ask Maurice Strong what we are doing here.
http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-91536-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
This is a liberal shell game being played with Candian Taxpayers dollars for 40 years!
As with so many LIberal boondogles “Out of sight out of mind” is the strategy! It seems to have worked well so far too!
Why is it that not too many Canadians have had their eyes on this ball?
Why do they need the money? They have adopted all of the NDP’s economic ideas, so they must be an economic powerhouse.
Maybe we could just send them Jack Layton???
He could introduce them to Kyoto and in a few short years the North Koreans would be buying carbon credits from us.
Where the hell’s Marius Grinius when you need “him”…
http://ashesoftyranny.blogspot.com/2005/12/go-home.html
Let me spell it out for yal…
“Kim Yong Nam Receives Credentials from Canadian Ambassador
Pyongyang, December 7, 2005 (KCNA) — Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly received “credentials” from Canadian Ambassador to Seoul the DPRK and South Korea Marius Grinius at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on Dec 7. On hand were Kim Hyong Jun, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, and staff members of the Canadian embassy.”
Consider the aid “boosted”…
http://no-libs.com/?p=1148
Just to put things in perspective the west has spent billions on make work projects for unemployed Russian nuclear scientists and god knows how much in monitoring and intelligence to make sure that Russian nuclear materials doesn’t move into the arms market (quite a bit of humint involved apparently but no hard figures).
So yes dealing with nuclear blackmail is unpalatable but it’s probably cheaper than the alternative.
Just to put things in perspective the west has spent billions on make work projects for unemployed Russian nuclear scientists and god knows how much in monitoring and intelligence to make sure that Russian nuclear materials doesn’t move into the arms market (quite a bit of humint involved apparently but no hard figures).
So yes dealing with nuclear blackmail is unpalatable but it’s probably cheaper than the alternative.
Stop the stupidity. Aid to Little Kimmie Dunghead’s NK is feeding his army, the people are starving.
The non-action taken by the Western Democracies when rogue states are suspected of making nuclear devices continues. The pattern is to watch and wait for the kaboom and then holler for sanctions. The same is happening with Iran, another madman at the helm and another nuclear threat to the world pending, so it’s watch and wait for the next kaboom and call for sanctions.
It’s about time Mo Strong’s favourite spot on the globe, China, got taken off the aid list too.
There should be no aid to an administration like China rife with human rights abuses.We’re feeding the abusers and starving the abused.
Jose said: “So yes dealing with nuclear blackmail is unpalatable but it’s probably cheaper than the alternative.”
South Korea readies for war*
Herald Sun ^ | 11 October 2006 | Gerard McManus
REPORTS of a possible second North Korean nuclear test have been played down by Washington and Tokyo. It was small comfort for South Korea, however, which is preparing for war.
While the rest of the world ponders sanctions, South Korea’s military meanwhile was checking its readiness for nuclear war, Yonhap news agency reported today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717352/posts
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*”Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.” Vegetius.
As they say MONEY IS THE ROOT OF EVIL and indeed it looks like CANADA has put wealth over our neigborly freindship
Editorial: North Korea’s bomb
Tue, October 10 2006
“There are not many in the nuclear field who are willing to talk openly about Canada’s role in the global nuclear black market or investigate just how much of CANDU technology has been used to make this world more unsafe.”…
tinyurl.com/gspj7
I don’t think it’s as clear cut as “money or no money”. If we continue giving aid, then bar of course that money actually reaches the people in form of food or whatever – we are helping out the victims in Korea. However, if the money is being taken by the gov’t then we are funding the enemy, so to speak. If we can insure that the funding is in the form of nutrition, I have no problem with it at all. The people of NK are not at fault, the leader is, and the military and those involved in hoarding the loot. Help the people and perhaps they help themselves. Maybe we should take a duel step. Give them food aid but also seek to replace their regime and improve their economy.
David Frum has made a good point. The main purpose of the food aid (poltically speaking) was to help prevent a massive refugee wave up into China. The question is: Why would we worry about that? Definitely, NOT our problem. By delivering the food aid, we have taken the pressure off China. Very dumb (but nice, of course).