N. Korea Bashes U.S. on Environment

(Seoul, South Korea) It's being reported that the North Koreans have discovered a new angle in verbally attacking the U.S. The Natural Conservation Union Central Committee has bitterly denounced the U.S. for "their terrible environmental pollution � (on) its aggressive military bases, drill ground, bombing ground and firing ranges." It seems the primary complaint is that the U.S. plan to reorganize its bases on the peninsula "would reduce the whole land of South Korea to a living hell where natural and ecological environment would be severely polluted."

Of course, this all makes absolutely no sense since the U.S. wouldn't even be there if the North Koreans hadn't already claimed first dibs on turning South Korea into a living hell. What does make sense, though, is that North Korea is looking to garner support from leftist environmental groups.

Interestingly, at the same time that the NORKS are spewing their rhetoric about the environment, a major controversy is bubbling in an adjacent far eastern neighborhood. A proposed U.S. Marine Corps Air Station on Okinawa has fired up protesters throughout Japan, including Greenpeace. In fact, Greenpeace's unjustifiably buoyant Rainbow Warrior arrived in the port of Naha this week to take part in two weeks of planned protests encompassing the disruption of a prerequisite environmental seabed survey for the airport.

Just a thought, but maybe the North Korean's nascent interest in the environment is a call to be noticed by the chum bucket of greenies gathered in Okinawa this week.