Why no boycott against N Korea?

[NolaMan]

Actually Pyongyang exports nuclear reactors and ballistic missiles, like the No-Dong - a variant of the Scud C - which the Iranians have modified as the basis for their Shahab-3. Mind you the Israelis summarily bombed Syria's NK-produced reactor and the North's No-Dong have about as much strategic capability as a roman candle. But still, they technically qualify as exports.

It is like North Korea picked up the slack for A.Q. Khan absence.

 

[Andalublue]

The fact is that NK is far more internationally isolated than any other country on Earth. It has less trade, fewer bi-lateral agreements and less interaction with the international community than Israel has ever suffered, and rightly so. I would estimate that Israeli isolation ranks somewhat below that of NK, Myanmar, Northern Cyprus, Cuba, Serbia and Venezuela. Somewhat above that of Uzbekistan, Sudan and Georgia, which is a shame.

 

[Infinite Chaos]

-- After an israeli action, nations like sweden and others will boycott israeli sports teams, produce, etc., but when N Korea openly torpedoes and murders 60 South Korean servicemen in cold blood - not a peep... :shock:

N Korea just played its second World Cup game - and neither country, Brazil or Portugal mentioned they were unhappy about playing this team. Can anyone explain why there is such a double standard here?

There are fewer pretensions to "civilised behaviour" from North Korea. They've signed fewer if any international treaties and there are already a multitude of sanctions against North Korea. They're pretty much isolated from the 1st and 2nd world except through any interaction by South Korea, China and the US. China is hugely important to the US from an economic POV so China can naysay a lot of pressure the US might try to bring to bear.

North Korea offers nothing to the world that is worth boycotting.

Actually, having met a few North Korean military people when on my travels in Central and Southern Africa you would be wrong. They have been involved with various governments in training individual units. I met some in Zimbabwe and others in Nigeria. The units trained in Zimbabwe during the early 80s being involved in the slaughter of Ndebele peoples in Matebeleland. North Korea's only friend being China and with China getting more and more involved in African affairs could see more NK military trained units in Africa.

A lot of it is simply thinly veiled anti-Semitism.

If you're saying the world isn't reacting because it's largely anti-semitic, I'd like to see proof that all the media, all the govts of the world have embassies they can withdraw or break ties through and that all the world industries that "could" (if they are involved in North Korea) pull out in order to put pressure on NK.

What means are there to boycott regarding the World Cup? There's a two year ban that could be imposed by FIFA if any world government puts any political pressure on their national team. We just saw this with Nigeria where Goodluck banned his team after their failures at the competition and then reversed this when it became clear FIFA were serious about their ban.

Any of the usual "Israel=good / Muslims = bad" crowd who come thanking any propaganda post here are simply producing low grade colonic irrigation.

 

[NolaMan]

Actually, having met a few North Korean military people when on my travels in Central and Southern Africa you would be wrong. They have been involved with various governments in training individual units. I met some in Zimbabwe and others in Nigeria. The units trained in Zimbabwe during the early 80s being involved in the slaughter of Ndebele peoples in Matebeleland. North Korea's only friend being China and with China getting more and more involved in African affairs could see more NK military trained units in Africa.

Ok..but who cares? Are we supposed to boycott North Korean travel? It is not going to be possible to keep North Koreans out of places like the Sudan or Nigeria anyway, so why waste time trying to come up with some way to "boycott" that?

 

[Infinite Chaos]

Ok..but who cares? Are we supposed to boycott North Korean travel? It is not going to be possible to keep North Koreans out of places like the Sudan or Nigeria anyway, so why waste time trying to come up with some way to "boycott" that?

Very few in the western world will care about North Korean involvement in some of the worst African governments anyway. It's also because nobody really cares or expects to change things in those countries where the North Korean military are now (involved in training) that they are there. It's a "league of the damned" if you will = or maybe a better expression is "birds of a feather, flock together."

As for travel, there are no western operators flying regular routes to or from North Korea (probably wouldn't be allowed to by the North Korean govt anyway) so we couldn't boycott what doesn't exist.

Finally, in response to the direct "who cares" - that also goes to answer the OP question if he was also asking why no outrage on this forum.