Hillary Clinton visited the DMZ today to point and say, “That thing over there? That thing is going to pay for what it is doing.” The hot new 2010 edition of U.S. sanctions against North Korea were announced and took a turn on the runway. What’s in fashion this year? “She said the measures would target Pyongyang’s sale and purchase of arms and import of luxury goods, and would help prevent nuclear proliferation.” Good idea, but this will of course somehow just result in more poor people starving.
The sanctions are in response to North Korea sinking a South Korean warship in March. Yes, March. Hillary Clinton did not have a craving for kimchi until today, ALRIGHT?
The BBC’s John Sudworth in Seoul says few details were given about how the sanctions would work, but that they were clearly intended as punishment for the alleged attack on the ship.
Look, how quaint! They have a reporter in a foreign bureau. Yeah, it is not clear how this will work, as it’s not exactly like the U.S. was selling arms to North Korea. But isn’t it the thought, the strong words that count when you are dealing with despots? No? Okay.
But our correspondent says Pyongyang is unlikely to heed the warnings from Washington – it has already dismissed upcoming US-South Korean naval exercises as “dangerous sabre-rattling”.
Haha, “sabre.”
And then China was like, “Stop egging them on, you guys. You shouldn’t mess with the crazies. They will fight back like a crazies do. Just let them be crazy in their own little country.”
And then the world exploded and Hillary was annoyed. [BBC]
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Ees naxt, sveemvare! Vary naise.
This is going to do a lot of good, because Kim Jong-Il and his sons care a lot about their international reputation and the welfare of the North Korean people.
Kankles McSwampsow, she too-obviously revels in the her office, she is, still, the approval-seeking middle-school class president. Lisa Simpson.
Hillary is gallivanting about and eating Seoul food on the taxpayers’ dimes!
Who is the Korean chick in the photo; the one that is fitting right in?
In North Korea, rice is a “luxury good” most of the year.
I wonder if “luxury goods” include pantsuits. Kim Jong wears those as well.
Luxury goods? NoKo?
Dear Hilsbot is gunning after the NoKo leadership who used to be the largest single buyer of Hennesy Cognac in the world.
Good idea, but this will of course somehow just result in more poor people starving.
Oh, it’s not like North Korea imports luxury goods to feed its people with. Kim Jong Il eats a Faberge egg every morning for breakfast, but the North Korean middle class lives on half a cup of rice and if they’re good they can go to the dispensary and get a hard-boiled egg preserved in beet juice and brine out of the jar. The only way North Korea’s poor would eat less is if we banned exports of dirt — as it is, they have pica for lunch and anorexia for dinner.
When the world explodes and nucularly melts, nothing says 50% off pantsuits at Talbots.
I was a guard at Panmunjom in ’74 and ’75. The Korean People’s Army guards were real assholes, probably way beyond Neilist’s level, although I can’t tell for sure, of course.
As for the DPRK’s response to Secretary Clinton’s announcement…
http://www.nk-news.net/extras/insult_generator.php
[re=622529]El Pinche[/re]: ..nothing says luxury like 50% off pantsuits at Talbots. , that is.
I like it best when we stop nuclear proliferation AND luxury goods at the same time.
Joe: Your plan will fail! You’ll never keep the world leaders distracted here for 9 hours!
Kim Jong Il: Oh no? I’ve got Arec Barrwin!
Joe: Dear God!
I am doing my Hillary impressions for my immediate office members. I have the gestures down.
I like Hillary.
I knew shit was hella bleak in NoKo, but I had no idea that fucking arms were now considered a fucking luxury item.
North Korea is literally the “Black Knight” of international adversaries.
“let me hear you say oohh aahh
summertime in the DMZ”
-Warren G (That one rapper guy who did song talking)
[re=622527]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Well said, Wook. We’re going to put a bottleneck on KJI’s access to cheerleader porn, Von Dutch trucker hats, and oversize “As Seen on TV” BluBlocker sunglasses. Try and sink a submarine with ALL THAT GLARE IN YOUR EYES! Fat chance. Peace will reign.
[re=622527]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Priceless. Simply priceless.
She’d look better in a fez.
BONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
That picture says it all: Hillary Clinton: GODLESS COMMIE!
[The alternative, that she is trying out for a position as a Saigon Bar "Hostess," is too horrible to contemplate.
Can you imagine how much cellulite an ao dai would reveal?
::::Shudder::::]
I bet sanctions against North Korea will really get results…why hasn’t anyone thought of this before ?
Sanctions? Cut Kimmy Jong-Ils internet porn connection if you want to punish the little bitch.
Reporter in a foreign bureau? WTF? I found some nice things once while I was rummaging around in a foreign bureau. But they weren’t reporters.
Powdered cankles are considered an aphrodisiac in North Korea, right?
Even Captain Beefheart looked stupid in one of those hats…
[re=622701]user-of-owls[/re]: Well, don’t we all?
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