WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration is ridiculing North Korea for claiming the U.S. owes it $65 trillion in Korean War damages.This reminds me of a story from the Apollo years I read recently in Michael Collins' book. After returning from one of the moon missions an astronaut submitted a mileage expense request for a trip to the moon and back. I think it came to something like $85,000.
A State Department official said Friday the communist nation is an economic "basket case" due its own failed policies and called the compensation claim "preposterous."
Marking the 60th anniversary of the start of the conflict, State spokesman P.J. Crowley said North Korea had no one but itself to blame for its isolation and said the North should abide by agreements to give up nuclear weapons and stop threatening its neighbors.
On Thursday, North Korea said the moneterary cost in its suffering from the conflict amounted to $65 trillion—five times the U.S. national debt.
His boss at NASA never blinked. He in turn gave the astronaut a bill for $150 million for one fully equipped Saturn V rocket.
Both those bill had the same chance of being paid as the North Korean request.
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I say the heck with paying North Korea $65 Trillion for War Damages.
They should pay U.S. for the entire cost of the war. These North Koreans certainly must also have suffered Brain Damage!!!!!!
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