The cost of North Korea’s Taepodong launch

sucks being north korean. but others in that country is loyal to kim jong il that they don’t care about the expense.

So you’re isolating their economy, blocking imports and exports, keeping them on an economic aid lifeline and you’re wondering why they’re so poor and in such a defensive position. Keep laughing at Cubans too for driving their 1950′s automobiles, at least they OWN them, not re-re-re-financing them through loans.

My heart goes out to the North Korean people. They’re the real losers here. The government guys are losers too, but in a different sense of the word.

even the picture seems to be photoshoped.

What do you expect? We are talking North Korea here.

I might sound heartless here but I wonder why We (as we, the rest of the world) support North Korea with food and medicine supplies? Yes, I understand innocent civilians must not be punished or accounted for the bad decisions their leaders has taken but in North Korea`s case, we all know most of the donations (food, medicine, supplies) are destined to the Military and government class while the common citizen is left to starve anyways.

On top, they have enough money to spend in weapons but they can`t help their own starving people. I wonder if this happen because they know International donations will take care of that while they (government) keep their attention in develop weapons.

Once again, I might sound heartless but I say, cut every support they get, including international donations.

Then what else can we propose? I know it will come across like a heartless comment but we are not helping them either with donations to the starving people or whatever international help they get when we all know they have to money to spend and help their own people but instead choose to focus in military and weapons.

There has been several reports from North Korea with information about how people barely get to eat once a day while at the same time, if you join their army, they promise you three meals a day. This is the main reason why North Korea have the four largest Army in the world.

So, its clear most of their resources are destined to Military support, including those of International donation.

Now, their famine began in 1995. That`s 14 years of people starving to death but under the same period, North Korea has gone from 6 to 4 in the world army ranking, while at the same time accumulating a record list of complaint about productions of weapons, including biological and nuclear.

Even the article above clearly says:

“Insiders close to South Korean President Lee Myung-bak say the launch itself cost around 300 million dollars, enough to break the famine sweeping much of the nation for a year.”

We know there is something really wrong there, no reason to point the obvious but I feel they have been taking advantage of whatever help they can get from any other country to deal with their problems when they clearly has the resources to tackle the problem themselves.