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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! North Koreans Starve While Huge Militia Grows Fat By Chad Groening December 14, 2001 (AgapePress) - An expert on East Asia with the Heritage Foundation says North Korea continues to pose a real threat to the stability of that part of the world -- that, despite how desperate things are for the North Korean people. Balbina Hwang is policy analyst for Northeast Asia at the Washington-based think-tank. She says despite a horrendous economy, the communist North continues to maintain a staggering military machine. "Literally, they have a one-million-man army," Hwang says, "and that is astounding, given that they are a country of 20 million people and their economy has essentially collapsed for the better part of a decade." She notes that more than two million people have starved to death in North Korea in the past ten years -- "and yet despite this, they continue to have a one-million-man army that is well-fed, well-trained, well-clothed ... and unfortunately, well-armed," she says. The policy expert believes that disparity is indicative of North Korea's priorities. "I think [that] indicates to the extent with which North Korea is absolutely committed, beyond the shadow of a doubt, to supporting their army essentially at the sake of starving their own people," she says. Hwang says on the other side of the 38th Parallel, South Korea only has an army of 400,000 men, supported by almost 40,000 American troops. While she says ultimately North Korea would lose in an all-out war against South Korea -- because it lacks the sophisticated weaponry of the U.S. -- she believes they would inflict heavy casualties and cause tremendous damage to the South's infrastructure. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! Write to same address to be off lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
