Der Spiegel interviewed Bernd Göken from the German humanitarian group Cap Anamur. The photo at the top of the article speaks volumes. Not one orphan child in the photo looks even remotely happy. It would be difficult to take such a photo of children in the USA, Canada, or Europe, as children there are generally treated with compassion.
"With every visit and every discussion, the enormous scale of the shortages was confirmed. The people are starving. They have nothing left to eat. For the rural population and orphans, the shortage of food will become a real threat during the coming weeks," said Göken.
Göken's main point is that sanctions do not work because the leadership and military are at the very top of the food chain and therefore they never suffer. This is true. The concept of sanctions developed from the lawyers' view that it was illegal and immoral to target the leaders of a country. They would rather see millions of innocent people starve so they can appear as pure as the driven snow.
As I wrote before, the only sanctions should be ones which directly affect the leadership. All shipments of luxury goods should be blocked. All money squirreled away in banks in Switzerland or Luxembourg should be frozen. Kim Jong-il has stolen billions of dollars and deposited it in banks in Luxembourg; denying him his safe haven might actually be fun.
Der Spiegel asked Göken: "Shouldn't North Korea's partner, China, be rushing as the first to provide aid?"
Göken replied: "There are no relief deliveries from Beijing. The Chinese have even refused to sell rice to our organization intended for delivery to North Korea. We have had to purchase it from Thailand."
China's leaders have never cared about its citizens or those of any other country. The communist view is that people are expendable; the human wave attacks in the Korean Conflict and Vietnam War were proof of that. Even the Soviet Union displayed this callous attitude in its human wave attacks, with just one example being Stalingrad, where groups of soldiers would receive only half as many rifles as there were men.
The administration of George W. Bush invaded Iraq because it claimed that Iraq had WMD. Yet 'W' and the boys never considered invading North Korea, even though we know for certain that it has WMDs, and soon it will have missiles capable of reaching North America. This was due to Halliburton and the other cronies of Dick Cheney not being able to make much money in North Korea.
Voice of America reported that North Korea has abducted as many as 180,000 foreigners from 14 different countries since 1950. These poor souls were kidnapped to provide training for North Korea's spies so that they could enter and travel throughout foreign countries without being discovered.
Given the living arrangements of the Kim family (read BBC News article here), it would be quite easy to eliminate the entire Kim family in one attack. Kim Jong-il has built a private Disneyland north of Pyongyang with mansions for all favored family members. We could level all buildings in this complex with cruise missiles at 3 AM. At the same time, we could eliminate North Korea's command and control facilities. This type of decapitation would be effective due to the totalitarian nature of North Korea; all surviving military personnel would not display personal initiative because it has been drummed out of them.
The clock is ticking; are we going to wait until North Korea has missiles that can reach North America or Europe? All of the POWs, not to mention the millions of starving orphans and other North Koreans, await our decision.
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