North Korea Attempts to Join in the Trend Towards Globalization

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia -- Associated Poets:

ven a hard-line Communist state like North Korea has finally attempted to bow to the demands for globalization, where everything is considered to be for sale. The North Koreans, in talks this week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, offered to quit exporting ballistic missle technology in return for a payment of $1 billion.

They noted that even the most basic National Missile Defense system,

A whole new meaning to the term 'rogue state'

proposed by the Clinton Adminstration, and the subject of another much-publicized test failure this week, would cost at least $60 billion. The North Korean delegation thought that this offer to save the American people would be eagerly accepted, but it was summarily rejected by the US team.

An anonymous US team member noted that they receive more than that in bribes, campaign contributions and no-show jobs yearly from the big defense contractors standing to profit from building the NMD system.

A North Korean delegate noted that they thought that saving the American people at least $59 billion would be regarded with favor. She noted that even if they opened a huge archipelago of sweatshops, they couldn't save US consumers that much money and noted that "the capitalists are unpredictable and dangerous negotiating partners. They give a whole new meaning the the term 'rogue state'."