| Friday, November 22, 2002 |
22:47 - Axis of Snivel
http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/east/11/23/nkorea.dollar/index.html
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North Korea is still pouting that we found out about their secret successful nuclear bomb program, which (according to them) they've only been working on since Bush called them Evil a year ago (being called a nasty name, you see, is grounds for nullifying an international agreement).
'Cause, you know, a year's all you need to develop a nuke completely from scratch in the enlightened communist paradise that is the DPRPDRK.
So now they're banning all US dollars.
China's Xinhua news agency reported that North Koreans and foreigners will need to convert U.S. dollar accounts at the state-run Korean Trade Bank into euros or other currencies, quoting a letter from the bank.
North Koreans have had to adhere to the measure since November 18, the letter said, while foreigners will need to convert their dollars by December 1.
"Hotels, foreign-exchange shops and foreign-related services will receive no U.S. dollars from the start of December," a staff member of the Korean Trade Bank was quoted as saying in the Xinhua report.
U.S. dollar accounts will be converted automatically to euros if no declaration is made by the end of the month.
The dollar ban was a "political means" to react to increasing pressure from the U.S., an unnamed British diplomat was quoted as saying in the Xinhua report.
Uh, guys, you only get to take your ball and go home if you have a ball in the first place.
How come the world has trained itself so thoroughly to turn a blind eye when some country repeatedly backs itself into a dangerous corner and yet persists in refusing to admit it's ever, ever done anything wrong? Why is insane fanatical xenophobia and self-righteous rejection of reality seen as such a virtue?
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