Kim Jong-il is still dead. Let’s all have a meal?
There are just three ways North Korea can go after the death of the despot. .
It can get worse. Much worse. Or it can get better. But not that much better. Or it can stay the same. That’s probably the best of the three options. No heavy lifting required by the U.S., China. The U.S. doesn’t know what to do. And China likes to keep an ideal vision of repression around as it develops its hybrid capitalistic communism.
So it doesn’t look great for North Korea. But we can always hope for a little bit more.
http://aaldef.org/blog/yearning-for-a-north-korean-spring.html
Unlikely that Kim Jong-un is the “Un-Kim Jong-il.
Although, he seems to have a similar hair-thing going on.
What I find strange is that food has become a bargaining chip as governments try to assess the future.
People are starving over there. The warnings have been out for sometime by UNICEF about the gravity of the situation.
Putting any plans for food aid on hold while the U.S. comes up with a political strategy, isn’t very humane. Get the people something to eat. Food first, then politics.
Happy Holidays to all. I like Christmas, maybe even more than Tim Tebow. But I respect your holiday too.
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