1. If poverty is really the reason why North Korea builds nukes, then why is it that the people who actually built the thing have so much higher a standard of living than I do (contrarily, I wonder how much Lee really knows about what poor North Koreans think about this)?
2. If the key to denuclearization is ending poverty in North Korea, why has your government tolerated the North Korean regime’s theft of your government’s aid from the neediest North Koreans?
Absent a satisfactory answer, I’m inclined to consider Minister Lee’s proposal to be a cynical effort to put a humanitarian disguise on the cowardly appeasement of a tyrant by financing his WMD programs and luxurious lifestyle. South Korea’s new slogan ought to be, “No worse friend, no better enemy.â€Â Extra fun: wanna buy a used North Korean Mercedes?
Useful Idiot: Lee Jae-joung
The South Korean Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung is now clearly with out a doubt a useful idiot. His first signs of ascending to useful idiot status was when he claimed North Korea built a nuclear program because they are poor. One Free Korea had the best take on this claim by Lee:
Now Lee is coming out and saying that North Korea is not using the money given to North Korea through inter-Korean projects for their nuclear program:
South Korea’s unification minister on Friday denied that North Korea has diverted cash it earned through inter-Korean economic cooperation for the development of its nuclear weapons.
Lee Jae-joung, Seoul’s point man on the communist neighbor, also stressed that North Korea earns such money "in a transparent and legal manner," saying the government will expand and deepen inter-Korean economic cooperation in the future.
First of all I would love to see Lee pull out an audit report of all the money given to North Korea by the ROK to prove his claims. I won’t hold my breath waiting for that to happen. Secondly, even if the money isn’t used directly in the nuclear program, it will instead be used to buy the Dear Leader and the regime elite mansions, booze, luxury cars, etc. which are in violation of the UN resolution prohibiting this. Additionally the money given by the South Korean government to ensure the lifestyle of the regime elite means that money brought into North Korea from other sources can be used for the nuclear program instead.  To Lee Jae-joung’s credit, he still has a long way to go to reach the useful idiot status of former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young.
Rev Lee or Professor Lee should just stick to church and seminary. He has no business in politics and ROKG bureacracy.