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    Kim Jong Un Purges Wealthy Elite and Opponents of Outreach to U.S.

    An excerpt from today's WSJ:

    SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has exiled, imprisoned or executed suspected opponents of his diplomatic outreach to the U.S. and South Korea, while also targeting his country’s moneyed elite with asset seizures, according to a new report that details a purge of some 50 to 70 individuals.

    The crackdown, portrayed as an anticorruption campaign in state-run media, suggests Mr. Kim is looking to silence critics and shore up his regime’s finances in the face of international sanctions, said U.S. security analysts and former South Korean intelligence officials.

    Economic sanctions have pinched Pyongyang’s traditional sources of foreign currency, from exports to its access to the global banking system, and the confiscations represent a way for the regime to replenish much-needed funds.

    The purge takes aim at officials who have used their powerful positions to amass wealth illicitly—albeit on a North Korean scale, according to analysts and the report from the North Korea Strategy Center, a Seoul-based think tank founded by a North Korean defector. The report’s findings are based on interviews with 20 current and former high-ranking members of the Kim regime.

    In a widely watched Jan. 1 speech, Mr. Kim publicly declared a war against corruption—a rare statement by any North Korean leader, according to former South Korean intelligence officials.
    Kinda of makes Saudi Arabia look like nice guys only taking out one critic
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    Our President is going over there to fix it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    Our President is going over there to fix it.
    Right Billy---trump and his lover little rocket man are going to have another love feast so the little rocket man can make a fool out of him again
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
    The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke

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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
    Billy scores another zinger......Ben
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
    What makes you think the love fest had anything to do with that Billy?
    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billy_Rightwing View Post
    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
    Don't fret my friend Trump could cure cancer and some folks would find something wrong with it.
    OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Honda View Post
    Don't fret my friend Trump could cure cancer and some folks would find something wrong with it.
    Yep, at the same time saying he really didn't do it.
    I never liked John Lennon either but he was right also.

    So no rockets have landed on us yet so fools do some good.
    It really is that simple isn't it, thanks Billy.
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