China Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 N Korea seeks $75 trillion in compensation Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility. The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $US64.96 trillion. The compensation call comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War. KCNA said the figure includes $US26.1 trillion arising from US "atrocities" which left more than 5 million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing. The agency also claims 60 years of US sanctions have caused a loss of $US13.7 trillion by 2005, while property losses were estimated at $US16.7 trillion. The agency said North Koreans have "the justifiable right" to receive the compensation for their blood. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOF44 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 They should just sue Big Al, seems to be the in thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heyholetsgogrant Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 N Korea seeks $75 trillion in compensation Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion ($75 trillion) in compensation for six decades of hostility. The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $US64.96 trillion. The compensation call comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War. KCNA said the figure includes $US26.1 trillion arising from US "atrocities" which left more than 5 million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing. The agency also claims 60 years of US sanctions have caused a loss of $US13.7 trillion by 2005, while property losses were estimated at $US16.7 trillion. The agency said North Koreans have "the justifiable right" to receive the compensation for their blood. Click on the link for the full article I'll do it straight up, if Kim Jong-il proves he can score a 20 in golf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebluefood Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Hold on a second, I just got a response from President Obama: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ax Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Maybe Obama can do another apology tour. Or, he could settle out of court for say, half, and apply the savings to his healthcare sham, er um, plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johns Bass Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 They should just sue Big Al, seems to be the in thing. ...or ask him for a loan...he obviously has not spent anything in years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 When I read the title I thought it would be about the World Cup, but this is even funnier lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 When I read the title I thought it would be about the World Cup, but this is even funnier lol Yeah. Some folks at a table near me, at lunch, yesterday, were discussing reports that, since NK citizens aren't allowed out of the country, NK had supposedly hired a bunch of Chinese actors to sit in the stands at the games and pretend to be NK fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Bluefood wins! ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Yeah. Some folks at a table near me, at lunch, yesterday, were discussing reports that, since NK citizens aren't allowed out of the country, NK had supposedly hired a bunch of Chinese actors to sit in the stands at the games and pretend to be NK fans. No they really did that... An experienced squad of professional fans are behind those red banners waving in the stands in support of North Korea. Among the 1,000 Chinese fans given tickets by North Korea for the World Cup in South Africa are actors and musicians who have cheered for China in previous World Cups, according to the Xinhua news agency run by the Chinese government. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph first reported on the hired fans from their Beijing bureau in May. Many others are Chinese tourists who paid for a tour package that included a game, a safari and a trip to a casino. http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/worldcup/article/824793--north-korea-s-hired-chinese-fans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison Redskin Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Maybe Obama can do another apology tour.Or, he could settle out of court for say, half, and apply the savings to his healthcare sham, er um, plan. You just can't help yourself can you? :doh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenspandan Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 i say we pay up. our mistreatment of the heroic north korean regime has gone on long enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ax Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 You just can't help yourself can you? :doh: No. But what really bothers me is, I can't help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visionary Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 We'll pay the North Korean citizens if they each come here personally to accept the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ax Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 We'll pay the North Korean citizens if they each come here personally to accept the money. Why not? We already pay some Mexican citizens for just showing up. :evilg: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darklight1216 Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I'm sure Obama will find something to apologize about. No they really did that...http://www.thestar.com/sports/soccer/worldcup/article/824793--north-korea-s-hired-chinese-fans :hysterical: LOL :laugh: Why not? We already pay some Mexican citizens for just showing up. :evilg: So true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nonniey Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Dear Mr Kim Jong-il: I am Barrister Christopher Mafetu from the Nigerian Central Bank. In regard to your request of $65 trillion....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Wait it gets better them inregards to their soccer team: The North Koreans beat a hasty retreat to the team hotel after their 7-0 gubbing at the hands of Portugal on Monday. However, when they find out what mental leader Kim Jong-Il could have in store for them once their World Cup dream is over, they'll probably be taking the short journey back home verrry slowly indeed. Despite winning round skeptical fans with a spirited performance against Brazil (and still having a chance to pick up their first points of the tournament against Ivory Coast tomorrow), one former North Korean coach is claiming when the players get home they'll be given new occupations. Shoveling coal for the rest of their lives. Saw this on deadspin.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostofSparta Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 When I read the title I thought it would be about the World Cup, but this is even funnier lol Ditto. So what exactly took the NK's 60 years to sue the US for the Korean War? Suing for the blowout in the WC match almost seems more sane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjfootballer Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Let me think about it.....no! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madison Redskin Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Dear Mr Kim Jong-il: I am Barrister Christopher Mafetu from the Nigerian Central Bank. In regard to your request of $65 trillion....... LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 North Korea started the Korean war. They attacked us. It's like Japan seeking damages for WWII. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 I like how they came up with such a number: $64.96 trillion. I guess it makes it sound more official than just saying..."uhhhh, $65 trillion!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMS Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 So the gist of this thread is North Korea is kind of living in their own reality... We really shouldn't enter into their reality but drag them into ours. Eisenhower figured that out when he was sworn into office. Truman has been trying to end the Korean war for years, but the North Koreans were demanding something Truman wouldn't give. North Korea wanted the forcible repatriation of all the POW's south Korea and America had captured over the years long conflict. Truman fearing North Korea would follow Russia's policy from WWII of harming repatriated POW's insisted the prisoners be given a choice. That impasse kept the Korean war from officially ending and American POW's from being repatriated. In comes newly minted President Eisenhower who badly wants the war to end. So he agrees to North Korea's demands, agrees to forced repatriation of all North Korean POW's that the US and South Korea have in custody..... With the agreement in hand, peace talks mover forward and come to a quick conclusion. On the eve of the repatriation day... Eisenhower has it announced in the camps that any North Korean prisoners in remaining in the camps the next morning will be repatriated. That evening he opens the gates and removes all the guards from the camps. The next morning there were no North Korean Prisoners to repatriate. That's how the Korean war ended. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baculus Posted June 24, 2010 Share Posted June 24, 2010 Maybe Obama can do another apology tour.Or, he could settle out of court for say, half, and apply the savings to his healthcare sham, er um, plan. The "apology tour" meme raises its head once again. "Obama apologized to other countries!" "Obama isn't accepting international help to clean up the oil spill!" By the way, this is the fruits of such an "apology tour": Obama, Medvedev say 'reset' US-Russia relations President Barack Obama declared Thursday that he and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have "succeeded in resetting" the relationship between the former Cold War adversaries that had dipped to a dangerous low in recent years. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100624/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_us_russia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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