kokodoko 67 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 North Korea’s elite has McDonald’s burgers flown in daily, South charges Marlboro cigarettes, Hennessy Cognac, beef, whiskey and Japanese beer are among the luxury items being brought into the country, the South Korean Ministry of Unification says. North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il and his cronies have McDonald’s hamburgers flown in daily even as the country’s people endure repeated food shortages, news reports say. The totalitarian country’s appetite for luxury clothing, cigarettes, watches and cognac from China has doubled in a year, a sign of a non-stop shopping spree by the country’s elites, the Korea Herald reports. International sanctions after two nuclear tests in 2006 and 2009 banned North Korea from trading in luxury goods and weapons. Meanwhile, it has again asked the world to help it feed its 24 million people, blaming lower crop yields as it has since the mid-1990s. While the European Union plans to send $14.5 million in food aid, the U.S. and South Korea have been reluctant to join the drive, the Los Angeles Times reports. Now, officials in the South Korean Ministry of Unification have told the Herald that some of Pyongyang’s power elites have McDonald’s hamburgers delivered to their homes from China through North Korea’s Air Koryo. North Korean trade firms are increasing imports of luxury brand items from Gucci, Armani and Rolex, the unification ministry was quoted as saying. The North spent about $7.5 million (U.S.) to buy cigarettes, including Marlboro and Mild Seven, up 117 per cent from last year. The country also imported $2.4 million worth of Hennessy Cognac, whiskey and Japanese beer, up 94 per cent, it said. Some $550,000 worth of class A beef was also brought in, apparently for parties among the elite, the unification ministry said. Meanwhile, imports of basic food such as corn and rice stood at only 4 per cent of total imports, or $46 million. According to Beijing customs, quoted by Seoul officials, the total volume of trade between Pyongyang and its last-remaining ally and economic benefactor surged by almost two times in the first five months this year, compared with the same period of the previous year. Some scholars believe North Korea has exaggerated its need for food, alleging that the aid is turned over to the military or stored for future use, such as a planned celebration next year to mark the anniversary of the regime, the Times said. A recent photo released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency, for example, is believed to have been manipulated to show people wading in floodwaters that did not exist. “I do not believe these claims about mass starvation,” Andrei Lankov, a professor at Kookmin University in Seoul and the author of several books on North Korean history and politics, told the Times. He called the move by Pyongyang “a deliberate campaign to get free food which will then be distributed to the privileged groups as government gifts. This will allow them to increase their legitimacy and win some popular support at the expense of the Western and South Korean taxpayers.” By: Thestar.com Published on Fri Jul 22 2011 Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Some $550,000 worth of class A's were also brought in, apparently for parties among the elite, the Rave ministry said. By: Thestar.com Published on Fri Jul 22 2011 Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 But that was 2011. By now they would've all starved. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 But that was 2011. By now they would've all starved. they are all coked up to their eye balls......coke suppresses hunger and gives energy Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Koreans wit coke? Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 if they had ganja, they would get the munchies. so coke is more appropriate.. Link to post Share on other sites
Saitaman 1 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 I prefer Pepsi Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Pepsi high is the choice of a new generation Link to post Share on other sites
sanjo 2 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Saudi Arabia may stop public beheadings... due to a shortage of swordsmen The Gulf kingdom beheaded 69 people in 2012, says Human Rights Watch Rape, murder, armed robbery and drug trafficking all punishable by death Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Wonder what they do with the heads. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Or the bodies for that matter. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 The heads are stuffed then mounted on the King's wall Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 I thought the rapists only had their dicks cut off at public dick-cut occasions at the town square. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 The heads are stuffed then mounted on the King's wall The bodies are a but stuffed too, after that! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 12, 2013 Share Posted March 12, 2013 you mean butt? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Nah, actually meant to type bit, but the fat finger syndrome hit the wrong key! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 but you could be right with butt. They like that sorta thing. Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Wasn't going to touch that line ... so glad you decided to go there, butt! Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 no no. I no touch a corpses butt Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 what's the difference between incest and necrophilia one is relatively boring, the other is dead boring Link to post Share on other sites
Alexander L 80 Posted March 14, 2013 Share Posted March 14, 2013 got more from whee that came from. But need to wait 'til Friday. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted March 16, 2013 Author Share Posted March 16, 2013 The days of casually crossing a creek are over if you live in the Gölçük district of Kocaeli province in western Turkey. Which maybe you don't. But the point is that someone stole a 22-ton, 82-foot-long bridge from there. It's just gone. Police suspect that the bridge was cut into sections and removed on a truck for scrap metal. Its estimated value is about $11,000. Villagers use the bridge to access their orchards, and a resident, Mustafa Karakaş told Today's Zaman that, "Now we have to take our socks off and cross the creek." Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 The bridge trolls are getting their money's worth? Link to post Share on other sites
kokodoko 67 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Why do they take their socks off? Link to post Share on other sites
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