US Bans Sales of iPods To North Korea

gamer4Life writes "The United States has created their list of products banned from being exported to North Korea. This list includes iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters. U.S. intelligence officials who helped produce the Bush administration's list said Kim prefers Mercedes, BMW and Cadillac cars; Japanese and Harley Davidson motorcycles; Hennessy XO cognac from France and Johnny Walker Scotch whisky; Sony cameras and Japanese air conditioners."

Comments

This is a joke, right?

[Master of Transhuman]

Like people starving in North Korea - or Kim, for that matter - are going to be pressured into doing anything because they can't buy an iPod (which of course will be instantly smuggled in anyway from China or via the business connections the North has with the South if anybody really wants one.)

This is what passes for "spreading democracy" in the Bush administration.

It's moronic beyond words.