“You are a fool if you enter North Korea to make money.”
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From another perspective. An ‘illiberal democracy’ is a People’s Democracy. Only four remain: North Korea, China, Vietnam and Cuba. Two of them have state-monopoly health care systems based on the same ideological approach as Canada’s (guess which two don’t and are having economic success).
Mark
Ottawa
Maurice Strong, mentor of PM P. Martin,Jr., of Canada, is surely no fool, is he? $$$$$$
UN studying Maurice Strong’s business ties
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS � The UN is studying whether it was appropriate for its envoy for North Korea to maintain business ties with a South Korean businessman accused of wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal, officials said Tuesday.
Secretary General Kofi Annan said he had not known about the ties between Canadian businessman Maurice Strong and Tongsun Park, a native of North Korea and citizen of South Korea who was also accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress.
Strong is the UN pointman on stalled talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
“The allegations have just come out, and he has no plans to go to the region tomorrow,” Annan told reporters Tuesday. Annan noted that Strong was not a full-time staff member, but did not elaborate.
UN officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said senior UN staff have recommended that Strong be suspended.
Strong denies any involvement with the $64 billion US humanitarian program in Iraq and has pledged to co-operate with an oil-for-food investigation led by former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Volcker’s committee is investigating whether Strong had any ties to the program.
But his admitted ties with Park are raising questions about a possible conflict of interest with his UN role. Strong acknowledged Monday that Park invested in an energy company he was associated with in 1997. >>>>>> more http://www.rapp.org/url/?1FTKXNFD
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“guess which two don’t and are having economic success”
I have no idea, but I can guess. Vietnam and China. Only N. Korea and Cuba continue to subscribe to the totally unworkable theory of 100% communism.
Oh, sorry, also Canada, at least with respect to its health care system.
Understatement huh? Like this…
“My “point” is this: the Iraqis certainly seem to be voting on questions the citizens of this “democratic” country would never be offered.”
I call the Hyundai-D.P.R.K situation the “North Korean adscam”.
Absolving all foreign investment is what it amounts to…
Sure they can. So can we. How many Hundreds of billions have we poured into Quebec with essentially the same result?
strong is a true snake in the gress.
Yup. Just another feckin day in the land of the “Democratic” “People’s” “Republic” of Korea…
So many feckin’ stories to make one SICK to the fecking stomach. Which one to choose?
-C. C., Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League Meets
-Reception Hosted by Ministry of People’s Armed Forces
-Conservative Newspaper’s False Report Refuted in S. Korea
-U.S.-S. Korea Confab Flailed
-U.S. Moves to Keep Military Occupation of S. Korea Flailed
-7th Japan-Korea Educational Seminar Held
-U.S. Urged to Come out to Build Confidence
-Group Visit to “Yasukuni Shrine” in Japan under Fire
Let’s go with this one…
-Spring Water Wasabi Goods Enjoying Popularity
“Pyongyang, October 26, 2005 (KCNA) — The goods of natural spring water wasabi (a kind of horseradish) exhibited by the Korea Pugang Company are enjoying popularity at the ongoing First Pyongyang Autumn International Commodity Fair. Typical of them are spices and kimchi made with wasabi growing in quality spring water in different parts of the country including Mts. Kumgang, Myohyang and Chilbo under the ecological environment free from pollution. The spices made with juice extracted from fresh wasabi roots are germicidal and contain sorbitol, natural mustard oil and kumgang medicinal stone and actinolite which have more than 60 microelements. The seasonings keep the inherent natural flavor and piquancy of the roots. Conspicuous is kimchi made with the wasabi roots and leaves. It preserves the vitamins and spice elements of wasabi in a stabilized state. Among the wasabi goods are also hard-boiled wasabi and fresh wasabi roots.
Kim Kwang Dok, an official of the company (Tel:0085-02-18555 ext 3818514,Fax:0085-02-3814544) told KCNA that the interest in the spring water wasabi, recognized as a health tonic and natural green foodstuff in the world, is ever growing as the days go by. The wasabi foodstuffs are available for anticancer, sexual function invigoration, anti-aging and blood-purifying agents and sterilizer, he said. The company will make all efforts to fully meet the demand for the goods of the natural spring water wasabi and thus contribute to the promotion of people’s health, he added.”
Well, I should call the “0085” number and ask how I can get some wasabi water shipped. I like putting wasabi in my water whenever I am eating sushi.
p.s: I only listed 60% of today’s entire media content of North Korea…
I wouldn’t be surprised if NK boots Hyundai out and keeps all the equipment in the plant.
Hey Mark,
Since I know many young Canadian university graduates are flocking to the greener pastures of Vietnam and China, I assume it’s these countries to which you are refering. I myself live in Taiwan and was shocked to find a community here dubbed “Little Canada”. Yet the Liberals will argue that we don’t have have a “brain drain” problem because we immigrate more educated people than we lose. Too bad they all end up driving cabs.
MikeM wrote:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if NK boots Hyundai out and keeps all the equipment in the plant.”
Of course they’d keep it. They certainly wouldn’t ship it back.
The North Korean government can’t collapse soon enough.
Eh, ya learn something new everyday.
North Korean traffic wardens(ya know, the kind that stand there all day and direct INVISIBLE FECKING TRAFFIC), blog now… http://songunreview.blogspot.com/
From another perspective. An ‘illiberal democracy’ is a People’s Democracy. Only four remain: North Korea, China, Vietnam and Cuba. Two of them have state-monopoly health care systems based on the same ideological approach as Canada’s (guess which two don’t and are having economic success).
Mark
Ottawa
Maurice Strong, mentor of PM P. Martin,Jr., of Canada, is surely no fool, is he? $$$$$$
UN studying Maurice Strong’s business ties
Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS � The UN is studying whether it was appropriate for its envoy for North Korea to maintain business ties with a South Korean businessman accused of wrongdoing in the oil-for-food scandal, officials said Tuesday.
Secretary General Kofi Annan said he had not known about the ties between Canadian businessman Maurice Strong and Tongsun Park, a native of North Korea and citizen of South Korea who was also accused in the 1970s of trying to buy influence in Congress.
Strong is the UN pointman on stalled talks aimed at persuading North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programs.
“The allegations have just come out, and he has no plans to go to the region tomorrow,” Annan told reporters Tuesday. Annan noted that Strong was not a full-time staff member, but did not elaborate.
UN officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said senior UN staff have recommended that Strong be suspended.
Strong denies any involvement with the $64 billion US humanitarian program in Iraq and has pledged to co-operate with an oil-for-food investigation led by former U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker. Volcker’s committee is investigating whether Strong had any ties to the program.
But his admitted ties with Park are raising questions about a possible conflict of interest with his UN role. Strong acknowledged Monday that Park invested in an energy company he was associated with in 1997. >>>>>> more
http://www.rapp.org/url/?1FTKXNFD
ctv.ca
“guess which two don’t and are having economic success”
I have no idea, but I can guess. Vietnam and China. Only N. Korea and Cuba continue to subscribe to the totally unworkable theory of 100% communism.
Oh, sorry, also Canada, at least with respect to its health care system.
Understatement huh? Like this…
“My “point” is this: the Iraqis certainly seem to be voting on questions the citizens of this “democratic” country would never be offered.”
I call the Hyundai-D.P.R.K situation the “North Korean adscam”.
Absolving all foreign investment is what it amounts to…
Sure they can. So can we. How many Hundreds of billions have we poured into Quebec with essentially the same result?
strong is a true snake in the gress.
Yup. Just another feckin day in the land of the “Democratic” “People’s” “Republic” of Korea…
So many feckin’ stories to make one SICK to the fecking stomach. Which one to choose?
-C. C., Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League Meets
-Reception Hosted by Ministry of People’s Armed Forces
-Conservative Newspaper’s False Report Refuted in S. Korea
-U.S.-S. Korea Confab Flailed
-U.S. Moves to Keep Military Occupation of S. Korea Flailed
-7th Japan-Korea Educational Seminar Held
-U.S. Urged to Come out to Build Confidence
-Group Visit to “Yasukuni Shrine” in Japan under Fire
Let’s go with this one…
-Spring Water Wasabi Goods Enjoying Popularity
“Pyongyang, October 26, 2005 (KCNA) — The goods of natural spring water wasabi (a kind of horseradish) exhibited by the Korea Pugang Company are enjoying popularity at the ongoing First Pyongyang Autumn International Commodity Fair. Typical of them are spices and kimchi made with wasabi growing in quality spring water in different parts of the country including Mts. Kumgang, Myohyang and Chilbo under the ecological environment free from pollution. The spices made with juice extracted from fresh wasabi roots are germicidal and contain sorbitol, natural mustard oil and kumgang medicinal stone and actinolite which have more than 60 microelements. The seasonings keep the inherent natural flavor and piquancy of the roots. Conspicuous is kimchi made with the wasabi roots and leaves. It preserves the vitamins and spice elements of wasabi in a stabilized state. Among the wasabi goods are also hard-boiled wasabi and fresh wasabi roots.
Kim Kwang Dok, an official of the company (Tel:0085-02-18555 ext 3818514,Fax:0085-02-3814544) told KCNA that the interest in the spring water wasabi, recognized as a health tonic and natural green foodstuff in the world, is ever growing as the days go by. The wasabi foodstuffs are available for anticancer, sexual function invigoration, anti-aging and blood-purifying agents and sterilizer, he said. The company will make all efforts to fully meet the demand for the goods of the natural spring water wasabi and thus contribute to the promotion of people’s health, he added.”
Well, I should call the “0085” number and ask how I can get some wasabi water shipped. I like putting wasabi in my water whenever I am eating sushi.
p.s: I only listed 60% of today’s entire media content of North Korea…
I wouldn’t be surprised if NK boots Hyundai out and keeps all the equipment in the plant.
Hey Mark,
Since I know many young Canadian university graduates are flocking to the greener pastures of Vietnam and China, I assume it’s these countries to which you are refering. I myself live in Taiwan and was shocked to find a community here dubbed “Little Canada”. Yet the Liberals will argue that we don’t have have a “brain drain” problem because we immigrate more educated people than we lose. Too bad they all end up driving cabs.
MikeM wrote:
“I wouldn’t be surprised if NK boots Hyundai out and keeps all the equipment in the plant.”
Of course they’d keep it. They certainly wouldn’t ship it back.
The North Korean government can’t collapse soon enough.
Eh, ya learn something new everyday.
North Korean traffic wardens(ya know, the kind that stand there all day and direct INVISIBLE FECKING TRAFFIC), blog now…
http://songunreview.blogspot.com/