N Korea to seize Japanese cars

[Ferre]

N Korea's solution for chaos on the roads and traffic jams; Just remove most cars.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...071303,00.html

[ryukenden]

It sounds very strange solution to solve the problem. Anyway, Japanese cars are throughout the world and mostly used. It will be difficult to do without Japanese cars.

[chicgeek]

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[hyperspace]

As you know, I fully support the efforts of the Democratic People's Republic of Democratic North Korea. Japanese cars run over people every year. They are small and hard to get into. If you stand at the rear a stink will arise and enter you nose. Take em away.

[geo77]

I couldn't view this site, either. It's still not loading

[John Scott]

Seoul - North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il has ordered the seizure of all Japanese-made cars in the communist country after he spotted a broken-down model blocking a road, a press report said on Monday.

The order came on January 1 when Kim visited the embalmed body of the North's founding leader Kim Il-Sung, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said, in a sign of his growing discontent with Japan's hardline stance on North Korea.

It quoted unnamed sources as saying Kim's sudden order might be connected with Japan's push for sanctions against North Korea following its first-ever nuclear test last year.

"After he paid tribute to the Kumsusan Memorial Palace on January 1, he saw a Japanese car that wasn't working blocking the road and gave a national defence commission edict to seize Japanese cars," a source was quoted as saying.

The commission is the North's highest decision-making body led by Kim.

Most cars in North Korea are Japanese

It remains to be seen whether North Korean authorities will be able to implement the order fully, because most of the cars operating in the country are Japanese, Yonhap said.

Japan has intensified pressure on North Korea after the secretive nation tested missiles in July and nuclear weapons in October.

Japan's sanctions included banning a North Korean ferry, which served as a major trade conduit between the two countries, from entering Japanese waters.

It has also adopted a series of measures against a pro-North Korean residents' association in response to its suspected role in the North's weapons programmes.

What a wanker.

[geo77]

Wanker is right.

KJI always sounds like an angry, irrational first-grader trying to impress his friends. How have we let this guy lead for so long? Isn't it our (EU, US, UN, etc.) responsibility to do something? I realize there is no oil there, but people are starving...!

[hyperspace]

I just visited Korea on the weekend. There aren't any Japanese cars there. That's right - no WMDs. Who started this thread? Is that you Colin?

[GreekCrusader]

Sooner or later North Korea will have to open up like china else they will lose out in the long term

[temyong]

I still choose Japanese car than Korea.

[Taylor Hewitt]

i think if i bought a car it would be red or black. not sure.

[GreekCrusader]

Japanese Cars give me a much better impression but i have to admit South Korean Cars in terms of designs are catching up

[temyong]

Are you a Korean? or Japanese

[KeithCash]

Word to NK
Do not make the JPN mad.

They might go back to slaughtering NK people again like that have in years past.
Once a butcher, Always a butcher.

Cheers