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To: Dayuhan who wrote (8758)	9/21/2003 3:57:30 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793727

It's all way beyond me.... Protectionism has been around forever, hasn't it, Steve? Anybody who opens up a hot dog stand wishes he could keep the rest of them closed. It was Adam Smiths tirade in "Wealth of Nations". He predicted Briton's demise if they keep up there restrictions on trade. I assume you are getting online with a phone connection now.

To: Dayuhan who wrote (8758)	9/21/2003 4:49:47 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793727

NK is threatening us with Nukes, and we are feeding their Army. You know the NGOs are CYAing on this. SEPT 20, 2003 - "The Straits Times Singapore Plea to US: Don't end aid to North Korea Food agency agrees Pyongyang should allow inspections, but says stopping aid will cause suffering By Betsy Pisik AT THE UNITED NATIONS NEW YORK - The director of the World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that Wash- ington's possible suspension of aid to North Korea could have a terrible impact on the country's hungriest people. The United States, which accounts for half the organisation's assistance to the communist nation, said this week it was reconsidering sending 66,000 tonnes of cereal and rice if the North Korean leadership did not allow the WFP to properly monitor food shipments. WFP officials said the supplies could run out as early as next month, which would exacerbate the impact of the country's 'lean season' between planting and harvesting. 'We are getting to the point where there is going to be a serious break in our pipeline... We need this to finish our work for the rest of the year,' WFP executive director James Morris said in an interview with The Straits Times this week. 'There is a sense of urgency here,' he said, noting that it takes time to gather, transport and distribute tonnes of cereals. The US State Department on Monday said the Bush administration might withhold some 66,000 tonnes of food aid if Pyongyang did not allow relief workers to properly track where the international aid was actually going. More than 100,000 tonnes were committed for this year. 'Unfortunately North Korea continues to restrict access and monitoring, which is still a major concern,' State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said. The United Nations concurs. 'They are interested in the same issues we are - accessibility, accountability and transparency,' said Mr Morris. But once aid delivery has been halted, he said, it can take months to re-start it, and if the US suspended its assistance to North Korea, other nations could do the same. South Korea has already delivered more than 100,000 tonnes of food aid to the North, meeting its pledge for the year. But next-largest donor Japan - where North Korea has become an unpopular cause in recent years after Pyongyang admitted kidnapping Japanese citizens - has cut off its 100,000 tonnes of annual assistance. More than 4.6 million of the most vulnerable North Koreans depend on the WFP for emergency nutrition, including grains and high-energy biscuits. The supplies are distributed through schools, orphanages, hospitals and facilities that care for the elderly. But North Korean officials have refused to supply the WFP with a list of these feeding centres and have hampered the agency's efforts to conduct the same surprise inspections and monitoring efforts that all other recipient nations submit to. straitstimes.asia1.com.sg