Bush bans Kim Jong Il from buying PS3s and iPods |
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Ah, America. Land of political WTF-ery. In one of the strangest foreign policy moves ever done during the Bush administration , the US government is trying to impose trade sanctions against North Korea, specifically against items that Kim Jong Il likes or which are gifted to him by loyalists.What does the North Korean leader like, aside from platform shoes and bling-bling? Why, tech stuff and other assorted luxuries, of course. The Associated Press report says that, in addition to any new tech, such as iPods, PS3s and the like, they also want to ban just about everything else, even sports equipment (Kim compensates for his short stature with a love for basketball, apparently).
The AP article cites a lot of other items among those to be placed under trade sanctions:
But the list of proposed luxury sanctions, obtained by The Associated Press, aims to make Kim's swanky life harder: No more cognac, Rolex watches, cigarettes, artwork, expensive cars, Harley Davidson motorcycles or even personal watercraft, such as Jet Skis.
Now, let's get some perspective on this. The man makes secret nuclear tests in his country and the people under his rule suffer from food shortages. That's a result of rather selfish decisions on Kim's part, as well as a lack of foreign aid because no one really likes him for messing with nukes right now.
The plan, as "creative" as some of the supporters of the trade sanctions might think of it, would only push North Korea's world leader to use more money to purchase the same things through the black markets (or eBay). If the leader of nuclear-capable nation wants a PS3, why would you try a stunt like this to get him to listen to you?
Robert J. Einhorn, a former senior State Department official who once went to Korea, said of the plan, "It can't hurt, but whether it works, we don't know." Trust a gamer to tell you this plain and simple: if PS3 fanboys are willing to wait out in the cold for days to get a PS3, and grey market sellers don't mind shooting people for those goods, you are wrong in assuming it can't hurt.
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yeah, thats a good idea. piss off the guy who just got nukes. if bush took my sh1t, i'd blow him to h3ll too
american foreign policy is quite the interesting beast, what do you do with a naughty kid who's doing something you've told him not to? you take away his toys and his allowance... good old america, our global patriarch.
this is nuts, why the hell would it make a difference to kim jong il? if i can go out and buy a ps3 on the black market then i'm damn sure he could send one of his minions out to get one.
but! this trade sanction means no north koreans at all will be getting ps3, correct? - correct me if i'm wrong - but if that's the case then the usa are commiting human rights violations right there, how can korea live without ps3?!
just how many brand-new-ps3 owners out there would run back into their burning house to get the ps3 out? i'm betting it's a good few.
also, i didn't think it was bush who decided what trade sanctions went where, isn't it the UN or someone?
how frickin childish =\
while they're at it, they should block the 360's off for them aswell..
but then again, no one would prolly like a 360 over there
This is retarded. U.S. Government officials play golf and enjoy expensive dinners, secretly kidnap random Canadians and send them to Cuba, screw the working class and support big industries, while there are still poor people in the United States.
Our society is becoming the one described in the book Fahrenheit 451--for example--passing a law that requires everyone, including the poor, to buy car insurance without regulating the prices of the insurance. The author describes a book-burning society where individuals do not care about accident fatalaties as long as everyone has insurance. I had to read it in high school.
Kim Jong-il may be an evil tyrant but what do you call a society that allows store managers to own big mansions while limiting the paycheck of Walmart employees?
A more positive approach to the situation would be to send poor people in N.Korea PS3's and iPods but that would be dumb also. Kim Jong-il would just take those away from the people and sell them for weapons probably.
This is hilarious. Isn't it funny how half the things on the "banned" list aren't even manufactured in the US? Hell, the PS3's are made in China. Why would he buy it from us when he can go straight to the source? lol
Bush is an idiot. He's just afraid that Kim might just use the PS3 to develop nuclear missiles or a weapon of mass gaming addiction.
Yup agree with the guy above, bush is a *****
I'm not saying I like Bush, but I'm not saying I love him either. The fact that everyone of you can solely take all of this and plant it straight on one man amuses me none the less.
If your going to call Bush an idiot for this you should also call all of congress a bunch of idiots too (but democrats have control there so you probably won't).
Honestly I've heard hippies make more sense than you and they're rambling on about the political and industrial machines that control our lives.
I agree that American Foreign policy is retarted but, I think that Kim will just go get his tech some where else like he always has. I don't want to sound like that guy who says "MAN THEY GOTS EVERYTHING TECHNLOGICAL OVER IN ASIA. THEY GET ALLS THE NEW STUFFS LIKE ........... 10 YEARS AHEAD," but he can just get stuff from South Korea, Taiwan, or Japan like he has been doing.
Thats the right thing to do cuz that korean could be using the Cell Procesor to guide his nuke and we be dead.....
suck coc.k kthxbai
ahh... Team America... such a great movie...
Anyways, It's not so much that Kimmy might make 'Nukeulur' Wareheads with the PS3s, but the fact that he will actually play it. Kim Jong Ill is an EXTREMELY conceited human being who is a technophile (25,000 DVD library, for instance).
Bush, love him or hate him, doesn't have much to do with this, regardless of how SLANTED the political views of the author pin-points it. There's a UN Embargo on goods to N.Korea. Whether 'Hans Brix' and his wishy washy crew wirr... er, crew WILL actually ENFORCE the embargo is another matter...
Either way, without his PS3, Kim will be very 'ronery'.
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Its not like if he can't go buy any from China (NK and China are allies) or import some from Japan.
get him a zune. nobody wants that.