[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 28885]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



       NORTH KOREA IS BIGGEST RECIPIENT OF U.S. AID IN EAST ASIA

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Madam Speaker, the biggest recipient of American aid 
in East Asia is not our friends the Philippines, South Korea, or East 
Timor. The big bucks go to a blue brutal dictator called North Korea. 
Unbelievable.
  North Korea got $650 million from us. Now, if that is not enough to 
prop up communism, not only can North Korea launch 100 missiles at 
America, North Korea is scheduled to get over $1 billion in aid from 
our taxpayers next year, $1 billion to North Korea. Beam me up. Who 
dreamed up this policy? Mao Zedong?
  I yield back the fact that North Korea will not be building schools 
and hospitals, nor peace academies with our money.

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