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WORLD SHOCKED AS NORTH KOREA DROPS THE N-BOMB

May 26 2009

Pyongyang, North Korea – The story of the rise of a nuclear North Korea is a long and complicated one. The occupation by Japan begat the Soviet-American conflict which in turn begat war and isolation. That conflict with the rest eventually became a conflict with the entire world as the North segregated itself from global politics,
emerging every now and then as the boogeyman shaking up their region and the rest of globe. In 2006, after years of worry, that sabre-rattling became nuclear giving the North the ability to drop the N-Bomb anytime they want.

North Korea’s second successful test of nuclear weapons has brought concern and fear the world over, bringing condemnation from major western countries such as Japan and the United States as well as rebukes from NATO and the United Nations. Though the threat of nuclear annihilation, especially worrisome as it threatens from an isolated country with a temperamental leader, brings grave risk to the world over many more are concerned that the N-bomb being dropped by Korea may be racial in nature.

“We cannot allow any nation to actively promote these kinds of thoughts and behaviours. It is unacceptable in our modern world to allow countries to promote racism as official policy and must be stopped,” said a spokesperson for the NAACP. “We have come so far that our efforts cannot be undone by a tyrant and a dictator trying to manipulate the world for his own benefit. We must be better than that and we must condemn these actions before they begin to poison the people of North Korea.”

Reverend Al Sharpton and other American civil rights leaders also spoke out against North Korea, apparently unaware that the N-Bomb being used in the North are result of nuclear fission not race or skin colour.

“It’s gotten a lot harder to argue for racial issues in the United States since the election of Barack Obama. There are still issues across the country and the world but the hard reality is with a black man as President a lot of those old arguments just don’t carry the same weight they once did. For people and organizations that have made their name fighting racism, these are hard times and they need to find new ways to stay afloat,” said Scrape TV Racism analyst Drake Douglas. “Especially in these hard economic times where people doing essential jobs are finding themselves out of work, fluffier work like activism is going to struggle. Add to that the relative lack of racism in the country and you have a recipe for disaster and seeing things the way you want to, whether or not it’s accurate.”

It’s generally understood that people in the NAACP and Al Sharpton have access to the same news sources as the rest of the world and that they understand the difference between nuclear fission and racism.

“The shame of this accusation is multi-fold. For one it is simply false. Kim Jong-Il is a fan of many aspects of black culture including hip-hop and basketball. It is also upsetting that advocacy groups like this would manipulate the truth simply to get themselves in print. It devalues their argument as well as casting unfair disparagement against Kim and the North Korean government,” continued Douglas. “The North Korean government has enough trouble keeping their own people down it’s unlikely they would want to keep another race of people down, especially when so few even live in the country. It could have course been a veiled comment against President Obama, or at least could have been perceived as such had that been what they had done. Odds are the President is going to be much more concerned with their nuclear technology then with their racial policies.”

For the record, the NAACP and Reverend Sharpton have no official objection to nuclear weapons.    

Emil Uliya, International Correspondent  

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