Where Are My Melons?

Funny, but true . . .

“We could stop the melon trade. Then Kim Jong Il wouldn’t be able to eat delicious melons and he would be furious,” said Ichita Yamamoto, a ruling party lawmaker. “He would ask, ‘Where are my melons?'”
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“North Korea is unlike other countries in that most of its trade is done by the party or the military,” said Shinzo Abe, the head of an LDP committee pushing hard for sanctions and a major hawk on North Korea. “By blocking money flows, we could deal quite a blow to the center of power.”

They get it.