Penalties for Non-compliance
Courtesy of OFK, he reminds us that North Korea is now 11 days past the agreed upon deadline to shut down their nuclear reactor. Since North Korea has once again failed to live up to their end of an agreement what penalties have they faced for this? Well not much. First of all the US agreed to give them back $25 million dollars worth of frozen funds in a Macao bank that were linked to the counterfeiting of US currency. The funds were given back to them for a “pledge” from the North Koreans to use the money for humanitarian purposes. Yeah right.
Secondly, the South Koreans went and handed over $400,000 worth of cash in a suitcase to the North Koreans to use to supposedly buy computers. Sure they will. Then to top it of 400,000 tons of rice aid was sent to North Korea despite their failure to meet the nuclear deadline. Additionally the slave labor park in Kaesong is still being allowed to operate in violation of a UN resolution.
If these are the penalties for non-compliance I would hate to see what the rewards will be.
Since no one else had anything to say, I would just like to state again, that it is pointless for the USA to (physically) stay in korea.
We are NOT protecting anyone.
Take our troops and toys back home. No good is being done here.
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