03-03-2003 01:11									#1
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...?artid=39110877

quote: HONG KONG: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has offered political asylum to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to a front page story in Sunday's South China Morning Post. The bizarre tale appears to be the kind of news story that newspapers like to publish on April Fool's Day, except for one thing: it has a credible source. He is Stanley Ho Hung-sun, the wealthy magnate who runs Macau's gambling casinos, through whom "high-level North Korean officials have offered the Iraqi dictator and his family 11th hour sanctuary in a mountain in North Korea". Chinese billionaires like Ho do not always possess political acumen but it is usually difficult to take them for a ride. Ho told the SCMP that senior level North Korean officials "told me that there really was a chance to prevent a war and (they) said that Saddam Hussein could step down two days before the US and Britain started to bomb Iraq and he (Saddam) could call democratic elections". Ho goes on to say that "one of the conditions of those elections would be that none of the candidates would be allowed funding from the US, ensuring that there was no American interference in a future Iraqi democratic state. Anyone who did accept money from the US would be shot"--presumably by a Saddam who had not entirely stepped down prior to the election. Ho extolled this initiative by saying that "it could be (Saddam Hussein's) trump card. North Korea is willing to give Saddam and his family a mountain in North Korea." The news story seems to be straight out of Ripley's “Believe It Or Not” except for one thing: Ho does have North Korean connections. The SCMP notes that in 1999 Stanley invested US$30 million in the North when he opened a Casino Pyongyang next to the Korean Workers Party headquarters.

I think this would make an excellent reality show. "It's the next Odd Couple!"

	03-03-2003 01:15									#2
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I guess the NK contacts of this millionaire were daydreaming, and saying out loud their grandiose solution to the US-Iraq crisis

	03-03-2003 01:26									#3
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Question: how will Saddam go to NK, without being shot down by the US?

	03-03-2003 01:36									#4
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He'll be disguised in an Afghani woman ?

	03-03-2003 01:41									#5
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"in an Afghani Woman?"

I don't know if I should or

	03-03-2003 01:55									#6
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quote: Originally posted by Azazel Question: how will Saddam go to NK, without being shot down by the US?

The US would be happy to guarantee his safe passage to NK. They'd probably live up to it too...

	03-03-2003 02:06									#7
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perfect! We'll have all our ducks lined up in a row when its time to confront North Korea

	03-03-2003 02:11									#8
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I guess it kinda makes sense. Who cares about Saddam if he's in North Korea, for Pete's sake?

	03-03-2003 02:19									#9
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Don't think of it as offering asylum. Think of it as them moving together.

	03-03-2003 02:50									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Stefu Don't think of it as offering asylum. Think of it as them moving together.

hmm, perhaps we have what is the makings of the world's latest power couple, eh?

	03-03-2003 04:30									#11
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He should take the offer. It's his best chance to live.

	03-03-2003 04:34									#12
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But the US will turn on NK with greater ferocity if they get a carte blanche from China...hmmm...as someone implied - kill two birds with one stone...

	03-03-2003 04:46									#13
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Excellent. Consolidation of targets? Wonderful news.

	03-03-2003 05:11									#14
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I think North Korea should offer Saddam a dirty device, instead.

If he had a REAL WMD, no need to offer him asylum...

	03-03-2003 05:17									#15
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You would nuke him?

OMG

	03-03-2003 05:18									#16
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Has Kim Jong Il claimed to be Saddam's father yet?

	03-03-2003 10:05									#17
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quote: Originally posted by BeBro You would nuke him? OMG

Sometimes it´s hard to get one´s meaning over.

I meant of course: I´d help him nuke the Marines.

	03-03-2003 10:20									#18
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Comrade Tribune, I don't know if you're serious or not, but saying things like that could get you in trouble.

	03-03-2003 10:23									#19
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As far as I can see, only if he were an American citizen or planned to commit a crime on Austrian soil.