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The rhetorical trap: North Korea as 'state sponsor of terrorism' : Comments

By Binoy Kampmark, published 28/11/2017

Obscure groups and more notable countries huddle together, supposedly sharing some disreputable common ground and we are none the wiser on the content behind the categorisation.

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All's fair, in love and war!
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 9:01:54 AM
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I am not sure that being precious about what anyone calls North Korea is going to make any difference. Rogue state, run by a madman works for me.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 10:11:26 AM
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We have the fool proof, space age technology, to test this defectors credentials and your spirited defence of a nuclear armed and defiant, Sabre rattling, North Korea!

Which allows all to see you for who you really are? Just another, I believe, filthy fifth columnist, actively engaged against the interests of the Nation state?

By their fruits ye shall know them? Be they Binroy or Donald?

The only trap in evidence here? Is the one Binroy is setting for the unwary or clinically gullible!?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 28 November 2017 10:13:23 AM
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North Vietnam was going to make dominoes fall across Asia , attacked the US embassy in Tet offensive and killed 58000 US freedom lovers.
( Heaps of free-love hippies were murdered which suited the Pentagon). Vietnam talked to Nixon and Kim Jong-Un and Trump talk to each other much like members of this online opinion forum . Apart from ttbn most are harmless and can trade peacefully.
Posted by nicknamenick, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 11:12:45 AM
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Lets hope Saudi Arabia, on account of its mutually profitable ties with the US, is never branded a Terrorist State.

Of the September 11, 2001 hijackers 19 men were tied to the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda. Fifteen of the 19 were citizens of Saudi Arabia who skipped through US customs with inadequate US checking. All 19 relied on private/state/Saudi royal family money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijackers_in_the_September_11_attacks.

But let us remember Saudi Arabia is never on the terrorist state watchlist, because:

- Saudi Arabia sets the world oil price at a level that favours the US

- Saudi Arabia is always a major customer for US weapons

- Saudi Arabia performs public executions to terrorise Saudis, guest workers and Western expats

- Saudi Arabia is intentionally bombing civilians in Yemen in order to terrorise them

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabian-led_intervention_in_Yemen#Airstrikes
"On the night of 6 May 2015, the Saudi-led coalition carried out 130 airstrikes in Yemen in a 24-hour period. At first, coalition spokesperson Ahmed Asiri admitted that schools and hospitals were targeted but claimed that these were used as weapon storage sites. Asiri later claimed that his words had been mistranslated.

The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes Van Der Klaauw said that these bombings constituted a war crime. "The indiscriminate bombing of populated areas, with or without prior warning, is a contravention international humanitarian law," he said. He continued to say that he was particularly concerned about airstrikes on Saada "where scores of civilians were reportedly killed and thousands were forced to flee their homes after the coalition declared the entire governate a military target"."
Posted by plantagenet, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 11:16:42 AM
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Iran has nukes and jails Yanks . Yemen has Iran's support . Yemenis aren't Yankees. Yemen is very hard for Yanks to find on a map compared with Bill's semen . Yanks are soft on royals.
Posted by nicknamenick, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 12:07:07 PM
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