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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39574)	12/15/2009 11:17:07 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 71588

Re: "You certainly come in with your six shooters blazing" Call me 'Tex' there, Slippery Pete! <g>

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39574)	12/15/2009 11:18:18 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Thailand Traces Path of North Korea Arms Weapons Seizure Could Step Up Pressure From Global Community on Pyongyang ASIA NEWS DECEMBER 15, 2009 online.wsj.com

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39574)	12/15/2009 11:25:15 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Re: "the US is providing food aid to NK." (Believe your data is several years out-of-date on that one!) Re: "SK maintains a free trade zone with NK. NK people are employed and the 'wages' are paid to NK who then distribute a small portion to the workers." Yes, I know. The travails of that factory have been well chronicled recently. (It's been on and off again, operating/not operating recently....) However the piddling small amount of hard currency that one factory by the DMZ earns (sewing jeans and such stuff) for the North Korean regime is a trifle. Their only REAL sources for hard currency are the illegal export of arms (which is under a UN ban now and active US interdiction) and the counterfeiting of Dollars... also, naturally, a serious issue.