North Korea News

[SuburbanFarmer]

We’ve cut off aid completely, years ago and sanctioned the hell out of them. Where the “bribe”?

I’m well aware that we’ve sent aid in the past.

#douchebad_backpedals

Whenever you’d like to put your big boy pants on, we can discuss further.

What is there to discuss with an ignoramus? Not much. You act like it's not a burden for the rest of us to drag you up and over your mountain range of ignorance in nearly every conversation around here.


Don't do me any favors, Mr. "Where's the bribes? We cut off aid. Well, I mean we sent aid, but stopped years ago. Well, I still haven't googled anything but I demand to be treated as an equal and an authority".

Pfffft.

“Cut off aid” pretty clearly implies knowledge of previous aid.

I have no idea what knowledge you think you’re providing. Maybe I’m just too dumb to understand your blinding wisdom. It’s pretty clear though, that you’re more concerned with being an asshat than discussing anything.

[Speaker to Animals]

I wonder what would happen if we struck their nuclear weapons and the R&D facilities while they are meeting, and then Trump just announces it to Un at the table.

[DBTrek]

More US aid to NK, circa 2017

“Googling is hard”

[SuburbanFarmer]

More US aid to NK, circa 2017

“Googling is hard”

From your link:

It marks the first time that the U.S. provided humanitarian assistance to the North since 2011, when it provided relief items including medical supplies to North Korean flood victims. That aid, worth $900,000, was made through Samaritan's Purse, a U.S.-based humanitarian aid organization

I wasn't aware that we chipped them another million last year. Obviously, no different than Chamberlain ceding territory to Hitler. You've pinned me. I have no defense against the staggering power of your intellect. Truly, you have enlightened the board with your insights.

[DBTrek]

I wasn't aware

Filed under ‘N’, for “Not news to anyone on this forum”.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I wasn't aware

Filed under ‘N’, for “Not news to anyone on this forum”.

Should we start a poll? Have I underestimated the impact of tossing the international equivalent of a fiver at North Korea? Shit, if we can buy influence for a million bucks, we can pretty much retire the diplomatic corps.

[DBTrek]

Do you know how to start a poll, or are you just talking about starting a poll with no actual knowledge of how the process works, how polls are structured, or what polls have already been taken?

[SuburbanFarmer]

Do you know how to start a poll, or are you just talking about starting a poll with no actual knowledge of how the process works, how polls are structured, or what polls have already been taken?

Wow, you are really determined to be an ass today.

I have made no claims to authority on anything, other than some knowledge of economics. Whatever your problem is, it isn't with me.

[DBTrek]

Instead of dismissing folks with your inferior knowledge, you should try learning something sometime. Google was there the whole time. The answer to “what bribes” is evident to someone who ho has performed even the most rudimentary research on NK and US relations. In fact, a pattern of NK extorting concessions from us through nuclear blackmail followed by promising to suspend their nuclear program is evident in almost every source on the subject.

Rather than learning something, you decided to dig in and be a dick.
/shrug

So you get pirate-and-a-half.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Instead of dismissing folks with your inferior knowledge, you should try learning something sometime. Google was there the whole time. The answer to “what bribes” is evident to someone who ho has performed even the most rudimentary research on NK and US relations. In fact, a pattern of NK extorting concessions from us through nuclear blackmail followed by promising to suspend their nuclear program is evident in almost every source on the subject.

Rather than learning something, you decided to dig in and be a dick.
/shrug

So you get pirate-and-a-half.

I didn't dismiss anyone. You seem to have made it your personal mission to dismiss me from this thread, based on the most minor of points. Not surprising, or new.

Had I known about the $1 million foreign aid in the past 7 years, prior to typing my post, it would have made exactly zero difference to my argument, or the goofiness of your 'appeasement' statement.

Assuming my complete ignorance of the subject, based on that alone, and then waving your ass around the place does not speak well of your character, or usefulness as a part of the conversation.