RE: Off Topic: Basic Assumptions

[Greg Peisert <gpeisert@jamesgregory.com>]

On Sunday, February 28, 1999 1:36 AM, Margaret Tarbet 
[SMTP:tarbet@swaa.com] wrote:
> TOKYO (Reuters) -- After years of telling the world about a
> devastating famine, North Korea on Friday boasted about its deluxe
> restaurant for jet setters visiting Pyongyang.
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> http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/news/9902/26/n.korea.restaurant.reut/
>
> For some reason, this strikes me as reminiscent of the genocidal
> 'famine' in Ukraina after WW1 -- an artifact of calculation, created
> and maintained by the thugs in power.   Truly a crime against
> humanity.   Will it ever be so punished?  Of course not!

  Amen, Margaret. I couldn't agree with you more! What a debacle. My guess 
is that N. Korea may well be the next flashpoint. The thugs have little to 
lose in attacking the South. At the rate they are going, they will need the 
distraction, and when they do it, the U.S. is instantly in the middle of 
it, with 30,000+ troops stationed over there. What a mess.

-- Greg