Jimmy Carter’s Mystery Gift for Kim Jong Il
Way back in 1991, when I availed myself of a chance to visit North Korea, the stridently guided tour included a look at gifts given by visiting delegations to the Kim regime — displayed as the trophies the North Korean government evidently perceived them to be. Since then, the American portion of the collection must have swelled considerably. In 2000, when then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright went to Pyongyang, she brought Kim Jong Il a basketball autographed by Michael Jordan. In 2008, a group of congressional staffers brought Kim a plate with the congressional seal. How many more such gifts have been delivered by Americans and received by Kim as tribute, I don’t know, though one might suspect that plates, if not the basketballs, have been stacking up.
Whatever the grand total by now, it’s a good bet that few Americans have offered up as many gifts as has Jimmy Carter, himself a gift to North Korea that just keeps on giving. Carter reportedly brought a gift to Kim when he visited North Korea last year, and brought Kim another gift when he dropped by Pyongyang last week. Presumably Carter also brought a gift to Kim’s father, Kim Il Sung, when he visited North Korea in 1994.
But what are these gifts that Carter has been bringing? North Korea’s state news agency reported only the following snippet:
Gift to Kim Jong Il from Elders’ DelegationPyongyang, April 27 (KCNA) — General Secretary Kim Jong Il received a gift from the visiting elders’ delegation.The gift was handed to Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly, by head of the delegation Jimmy Carter, ex-president of the U.S., on Wednesday.
Carter, in his fawning blog from Pyongyang, mentioned nothing of this. Even China’s state news agency, Xinhua, is apparently in the dark, reduced to citing the KCNA report, and noting that no further details of the gift were provided. All that’s clear is that since Kim did not bother to meet personally with Carter, either last year or last week, Carter further abased himself by handing over the gift not to Kim himself, but to one of Kim’s senior minions.
Such personal tribute from Carter may be small potatoes compared to the latest, lavish handout of $200 million worth of free food that the United Nations World Food Program on Friday promised Pyongyang — immediately following Carter’s rant in which he accused South Korea and America of violating human rights if they failed to send yet more free food to North Korea. Nonetheless, gifts from envoys — even self-styled envoys, if they happen to be former American presidents — are tokens of respect.
I can think of a few things that might have been appropriate. Maybe a copy of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, or The Black Book of Communism, or — on a lighter note — a video clip from Team America. Somehow, I doubt any of these were even considered. So, we’re left with a small mystery here, and yet I’d like to know: What did Jimmy tote along to North Korea last week as his latest tribute to the Dear Leader?
(And don’t miss “Carter bombs in Pyongyang”at the Tatler.)
I’m guessing it’s an 8-track tape player with a collection of Rare Earth, The Carpenters and Ray Stevens.
They’ll probably be poking at it like the black monolith in “2001…” for weeks.
Or possibly it’s a “wheeless” cell phone.
At least it we can be sure of one thing:
It wasn’t tapes of his speeches.
Obama has far surpassed Carter in tackiness.
The only “gift” we should give Kim Jong Il is a framed picture of a B-52 dropping its entire load on a target in either Vietnam or Afghanistan (take your pick). I think he’ll get the hint. Carter is such a fool, and a dangerous one at that. The senile idiot doesn’t realize what a propaganda tool he is and to dictators and terrorists around the world he is simply the gift that keeps on giving. Perhaps it’s about time somebody read the Logan Act to Jimmy Cart. Violating it is a felony and I think there is a good case that can be made against Carter on this issue.
1. He’s not a fool.
2. He’s not senile.
3. He knows exactly what he’s doing.
Like Obama, Carter is a hard-corp Marxist. Attributing their treason to incompetence or senility is a huge mistake.
I don’t even know why we’re surprised at Carter or the U.N. any longer. We are without principles ourselves. Can you envision the U.S. sending $200 MILLION of aid to Hitlers starving citizens prior to the fall of Berlin? Why not? I think that as long as we’re willing to fund societies that canNOT, for whatever reason, back fully the foundational principles laid out in the U.S. Consititution we will forever be led by loons like Carter that believe a country that denies the First Amendment can be our friends. No aid, no food, no visas, no military protection, no ANYTHING for enemies of freedom and their people that stand behind them, chained or not, supporting their policy of tyranny.
What did Jimmy tote along to North Korea last week as his latest tribute to the Dear Leader?
That’s easy! Carter gave the same thing he he gives to all the foreign despots: his admiration for their momentous “achievements”.
The Carter Presidency has great parallels with the present one. They both suffer from an ethical confusion, an incredible inability to discern basic truth about right and wrong. It is a good thing to reach out to enemies, to attempt reconciliation, to admit that our side has been imperfect, but that we truly desire peace. But it is terribly harmful, and confusing to friend and foe, to tell the devil that his conduct is basically OK. Carter never learned to confront monsters with simple truth. Reagan did. One was totally ineffectual; the other ended a cold war against an enemy who had pointed 13,000 thermonuclear warheads at our nation and broke the enslaved WARSAW Pact. It is notable today, that Reagan’s strongest ally was Pope John Paul II, who is remembered in Rome. These are the judgments of Mikhail Gorbachev, the boss of our enemy, the USSR; he did not include Carter.
Carter should have given the gift of a bowl of rice, and one bullet. His host would understand.
Carter is STILL trying to be a President and he still CANNOT pull it off. Dementia is moving fast in him. If he wasn’t so old I’d kick his arse. He is just like a pesky fly; he just keeps buzzing around and annoying the heck out of people. Hey Jimmy go and count your peanuts one by one and stay away from trying to do something intelligent. You just can’t do it. How does it feel to be a loser…loser?!
A case of Peter Pan Crunchy
This peanut farmer needs his shells cracked and him stuffed in them as he is the biggest nut of all.
Methinks Jimmy Carter brought some home-grown peanuts.
A tape of Carter singing “Salted Peanuts” and a lifetime subscription to peanut of the month club.