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2007-07-04 00:12:18
Liberal-Sl@yer
Certified BF2S Asshole
+131|6899|The edge of sanity

reuters wrote:

South Korea will start shipping oil to North Korea next week, an official said on Wednesday, a day after U.N. nuclear inspectors said the reclusive state had agreed to steps verifying a shutdown of its atom bomb program.

Under a disarmament-for-aid pact reached in six-country talks in February, impoverished North Korea pledged to start closing its Soviet-era Yongbyon reactor in exchange for 50,000 tons of heavy oil from its neighbor.
This has got to be the stupidist thing ive seen in my life. Its like going up to a loin and marinaing yourself in bbq sauce. Why give a country thats been at war with you for over 50 years (yes technically they are still at war) supplies?

Full story here



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070704/wl_ … nZFvtkM3wV
2007-07-04 07:13:55
jonsimon
Member
+224|6939
Leverage.
2007-07-04 07:15:17
Cybargs
Moderated
+2,285|7160

Liberal-Sl@yer wrote:

reuters wrote:

South Korea will start shipping oil to North Korea next week, an official said on Wednesday, a day after U.N. nuclear inspectors said the reclusive state had agreed to steps verifying a shutdown of its atom bomb program.

Under a disarmament-for-aid pact reached in six-country talks in February, impoverished North Korea pledged to start closing its Soviet-era Yongbyon reactor in exchange for 50,000 tons of heavy oil from its neighbor.
This has got to be the stupidist thing ive seen in my life. Its like going up to a loin and marinaing yourself in bbq sauce. Why give a country thats been at war with you for over 50 years (yes technically they are still at war) supplies?

Full story here



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070704/wl_ … nZFvtkM3wV
Koreans tend to like to help out their own kind. It's culture that's making them doing it. They got a lot of family members stuck in the north, that's why they're doing it.
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2007-07-04 07:21:26
Noobeater
Northern numpty
+194|6890|Boulder, CO
Nort korea's probably promised them monthly gifts of gold on WoW if they send them oil, or something like that. The koreans take their games very seriously there.
2007-07-04 07:26:50
trippy982
Member
+34|6841
I would give them oil to shutdown there nuclear program, except I don't trust Kim Jong II.  The dude will probably keep the oil and then reactivate the reactors.

Last edited by trippy982 (2007-07-04 07:27:36)

2007-07-04 07:28:33
nonexistentusmc
Member
+26|6889|Queens, NYC
I don't believe Asians are that hostile. I mean look at Vietnam, they don't take it to heart that we went over there and killed tons of their people? Along with the Japanese, and the Philippines, and whatever else is there.
2007-07-04 07:35:10
M.O.A.B
'Light 'em up!'
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trippy982 wrote:

I would give them oil to shutdown there nuclear program, except I don't trust Kim Jong II.  The dude will probably keep the oil and then reactivate the reactors.
Just send him all the latest blockbuster movies , the new Rambo film will work like a charm.

Last edited by M.O.A.B (2007-07-04 07:35:37)

2007-07-04 09:14:25
EVieira
Member
+105|6922|Lutenblaag, Molvania

Liberal-Sl@yer wrote:

reuters wrote:

South Korea will start shipping oil to North Korea next week, an official said on Wednesday, a day after U.N. nuclear inspectors said the reclusive state had agreed to steps verifying a shutdown of its atom bomb program.

Under a disarmament-for-aid pact reached in six-country talks in February, impoverished North Korea pledged to start closing its Soviet-era Yongbyon reactor in exchange for 50,000 tons of heavy oil from its neighbor.
This has got to be the stupidist thing ive seen in my life. Its like going up to a loin and marinaing yourself in bbq sauce. Why give a country thats been at war with you for over 50 years (yes technically they are still at war) supplies?

Full story here



http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070704/wl_ … nZFvtkM3wV
Why? The US has gone to war with Iraq because of WMD that dind't even exist, they are giving Iran hell about their nuclear program, and you want to know why send the oil? For decades the entire world, specially Japan and the US, have been trying to get Korea to shut down that reactor, and now they have deal. What would you rather do, invade? We've seen whats happened in Iraq...

Last edited by EVieira (2007-07-04 09:14:43)

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2007-07-04 09:16:25
usmarine
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EVieira wrote:

Why? The US has gone to war with Iraq because of WMD that dind't even exist
Sigh.

Why do you listen to politicians?  Will you parrots stop saying this.  We all know that wasn't why.  Why is that a shock to you?
2007-07-04 09:25:11
EVieira
Member
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usmarine2005 wrote:

EVieira wrote:

Why? The US has gone to war with Iraq because of WMD that dind't even exist
Sigh.

Why do you listen to politicians?  Will you parrots stop saying this.  We all know that wasn't why.  Why is that a shock to you?
What would you have me say? That Iraq DID have WMDs? Besides, thats not what we are discussing here. I used it as an example... Try to get over your obsession of defending Bush...

Last edited by EVieira (2007-07-04 09:25:55)

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2007-07-04 09:33:55
M.O.A.B
'Light 'em up!'
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EVieira wrote:

That Iraq DID have WMDs?
They did at one point, how did they chemicalise Iranians if they didn't have those weapons, they still could have had those before the war and simply buried them out in the desert so they couldn't be found like they did with some of their planes.

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Last edited by M.O.A.B (2007-07-04 09:35:22)

2007-07-04 09:42:01
usmarine
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EVieira wrote:

I used it as an example... Try to get over your obsession of defending Bush...
I am not defending him, I just knew better than to listen to him.
2007-07-04 09:49:27
EVieira
Member
+105|6922|Lutenblaag, Molvania

M.O.A.B wrote:

EVieira wrote:

That Iraq DID have WMDs?
They did at one point, how did they chemicalise Iranians if they didn't have those weapons, they still could have had those before the war and simply buried them out in the desert so they couldn't be found like they did with some of their planes.

http://www.defendamerica.mil/images/pho … 0603b1.jpg
They had no WMDs when Bush declared war. Not  a drop of Anthrax, mustard gas, or anything else has been found, and you have control of the whole country. Sorry, Saddam was telling the truth.

My point was that its much better to send NK oil to shut down their reactor then to use force, or any other means. Nothing more. Iraq was one of the examples I gave. Usmarine quoted only that single phrase and started the derail. This has been discussed so much, there is no need to get defensive.
"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered;  the point is to discover them."
Galileo Galilei  (1564-1642)
2007-07-04 11:13:18
M.O.A.B
'Light 'em up!'
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EVieira wrote:

M.O.A.B wrote:

EVieira wrote:

That Iraq DID have WMDs?
They did at one point, how did they chemicalise Iranians if they didn't have those weapons, they still could have had those before the war and simply buried them out in the desert so they couldn't be found like they did with some of their planes.

http://www.defendamerica.mil/images/pho … 0603b1.jpg
They had no WMDs when Bush declared war. Not  a drop of Anthrax, mustard gas, or anything else has been found, and you have control of the whole country. Sorry, Saddam was telling the truth.
You won't know truly until you dig up the entire Iraqi desert, that said someone put the thread back on track .
2007-07-04 11:17:52
Mekstizzle
WALKER
+3,611|7064|London, England
Whatever the case, them "dumb I-rakistanis" sure did make us look like fools. Whether or not they're hidden in thousands of square miles of desert is irrelevant, they made us look like idiots.

Anyway about the Korea thing, you can't choose your neighbours so you eventually have to try and make peace. Even moreso because the only real difference is political and not religious/race/language, where if they were rivals due to those reasons, it would be harder to make peace if there wasn't peace in the first place. Get me?
2007-07-04 11:19:39
Smithereener
Member
+138|6759|California
Because I'm pretty sure the general public sentiment still longs for unification. Even if they are technically still at war, they're trying to establish better relations with each other. There are stories that come up occasionally that talk about reunited families and such. Plus, I'm assuming S.Korea is getting a little intimidated seeing as their next door purely militaristic neighbor has some nuclear reactors and missiles. Missiles + Nuclear Tech... Eh. I'd give them some oil too.

 

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