North Korea Draws In US To Save Face -- Donald Kirk, Asia Times SEOUL - It did seem like a fun idea at the time. Why not hoist huge photos of Kim Jong-il and son and heir Kim Jong-eun and have young South Korean army soldiers fire away at them for target practice?
Like lofting balloons over the North bearing leaflets with great stories on the sordid histories of North Korea's dynastic leaders, this one just didn't strike the North Koreans as funny. No sooner did they get word about it than they were off on a rhetorical bender, promising the same "retaliatory military strikes" that they have said they will deploy against those so bold as to launch the dreaded balloons.
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My Comment: I for one could never understand U.S. aid policy when it comes to North Korea. Everyone in the region .... i.e. China, South Korea, Japan, defectors from North Korea .... everyone .... and I mean everyone .... knows that U.S. food aid goes directly to Kim il-Jong's security forces and privileged party officials. But even with this overwhelming understanding of the situation on the Korean peninsula, we still have useless idiots like US envoy on human rights to North Korea, Robert King .... who pursue a discredited and .... in fact .... a disastrous policy of rapprochement with the North.
In the meantime, South Korea is aware of the monsters that exist in North Korea, and must continually warn the North on the consequences of an armed confrontation.