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[ZenGum]

N Korea seeks $65 trillion in compensation

Cash-strapped North Korea has demanded the United States pay almost $US65 trillion in compensation for six decades of hostility.

The official North Korean news agency, KCNA, says the cost of the damage done by the US since the peninsula was divided in 1945 is estimated at $US64.96 trillion.

The compensation call comes on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the start of the 1950-1953 Korean War.

KCNA said the figure includes $US26.1 trillion arising from US "atrocities" which left more than 5 million North Koreans dead, wounded, kidnapped or missing.

The agency also claims 60 years of US sanctions have caused a loss of $US13.7 trillion by 2005, while property losses were estimated at $US16.7 trillion.

The agency said North Koreans have "the justifiable right" to receive the compensation for their blood.

It said the committee's calculation did not include the damage North Korea had suffered from sanctions after its first nuclear test in 2006.

- AFP

Those wacky NorKors crack me up.

You guys better pay up, I hear they have a really good lawyer.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

You guys better pay up, I hear they have a really good lawyer.

Kim Jong-ilberg

[xoxoxoBruce]

Man Kills Toddler For Crying During World Cup Match, cops say
McALLEN, Texas -- Police have arrested a man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter when she wouldn't stop crying as he watched a World Cup game. McAllen police say 27-year-old Hector Castro was charged Monday with murder. He was being held on $1 million bail.

Firefighters and emergency medical personnel had been called to the house Saturday in reference to the girl's apparent choking on a screw, McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said. But after a cursory examination of the girl, whose name was not released by police, it was clear the screw had nothing to do with her death, police said.
"There are no words for this," said Rodriguez. "It makes you want to think about doing lots of things to this guy, but he will face the criminal justice system just like everybody else."
Castro, an undocumented immigrant, gave investigators a confession that implicated himself in the girl's death, Rodriguez said. Police Chief Victor Rodriguez says Castro told investigators that the toddler wouldn't stop crying while he was trying to watch the U.S.-Ghana matchup on Saturday.

I'm thankful Texas still has the death penalty.