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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Kim Jong-un, first diplomacy, then he must go: by Dr. Glenn Mollette
I really don’t want to take my
column space to write anything else
about Kim Jong-un. There is so much
going on in America and the world that
I would rather write about.
Here we are again with this idiot
dominating the news in our country. I
don’t think anyone has ever liked this
weirdo. For the past decade we have
simply brushed him off as the North
Korea Kook. Former NBA basketball
player Dennis Rodman has been there
to play basketball and the dictator
referred to Rodman as the highest-rank-
ing diplomat to visit North Korea from
the United States. Huh? Rodman is just
a retired professional basketball player.
He was a great player.
In the last few years our country
has had to take Jong-un in all dead
seriousness. He has been test launching
one missile after another with the hopes
of achieving the kind of missile that
would reach the United States. You see
how much everybody loves America?
I do think we have some friends. My
wife and I visited France recently and
everyone was very congenial to us in
that country. Jong-un is not a friend. I
wouldn’t go to North Korea. Do you re-
member what they did to Otto Warmbier
from Cincinnati? They held him captive
for 17 months and sent him home 99
percent dead in a coma. He died shortly
after being returned to Cincinnati. No
American should be allowed to visit
North Korea.
Is China our friend? Reports have
come that China’s trade with North
Korea has increased by 40 percent in
the last three months. China’s slave
wages and currency manipulation have
not been a friend to our country the last
twenty years. Is Japan our friend? They
haven’t gotten over the two bombs we
dropped on them during World War II.
The bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
killed approximately 129,000 people.
However they hit us first at Pearl Har-
bor. Pearl Harbor will forever be etched
in our minds. You never replace human
life but we went all out in rebuilding
Japan and pumped billions into that
country through trade as we do China.
Jong-un is obviously not the kind
of guy you want to hang out with but
sometimes you have to. Should Trump
send Rodman over to talk to Jong-un?
He could say something like, “Sir,
would you please stop launching mis-
siles?” He could take him a signed
basketball or maybe present him with
five-foot tall trophy. Why not? Do you
think that would be stupid? Well, it’s
stupid but sometimes you try stupid to
deal with stupid.
Next, Trump should invite him
to the White House. Or, meet him in
China. I suspect he would feel very
unsafe coming to America. Diplomacy
must always be the first course of ac-
tion. Trump or Nikki Haley, (now there
is our first woman President) should
try to spend a day talking to Jong-un.
Buy him a coke, take him golfing, take
him on the Kentucky Bourbon Trail and
give him some of Kentucky’s famous
brew. Maybe if he drank enough of
it he would calm down. Or, he might
start competing with China to buy
some of the billion-dollar brew. By the
way China now owns one of the old-
est distilleries’ in Frankfort, Kentucky.
This should be illegal. Once hooked on
Kentucky bourbon then we tell Jong-un
that we will not sell any to North Korea
unless he settles down and stops being
stupid.
Rodman, Trump, Haley and even
Kentucky Bourbon may not work. So
what do we do with North Korea? My
son spent a year in South Korea and
we have over one hundred thousand
Americans there now - many of them
our military. There are millions of good
hard working South Koreans that love
America. We don’t want them bombed
off the planet and Jong-un is crazy
enough to do it.
Can we take out their missiles?
Apparently we don’t know where they
all are. Taking out only a few would
surely mean North Korea launching
theirs and the result would be devastat-
ing to South Korea and maybe others.
Plus, they would surely hurl one toward
Alaska or even California.
A cyber attack sounds like a good
idea if we can really pull it off but how
long will that work? Not forever.
The problem is Jong-un, at least
for the moment. He needs to be talked
to. There should be a conversation.
There should be an attempt at reason-
ing. Send Dr. Robert Jeffress from First
Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas to tell
him about Jesus. Try anything.
The bottom line is if diplomacy
doesn’t work then Jong-un must go.
It’s a bigger job than sending a
Navy Seal team in to take him out.
I don’t want to lose a bunch of our
good soldiers in a mission that might
be impossible. On the other hand I
don’t want to lose an American city
and 50,000 people in a nuclear bomb
attack. We cannot and must not take
that chance. Jong-un is on a mission of
insanity and he must go.
Glenn Mollette is a syndicated
columnist and author of 12 books. He is
read in all 50 states. Read his new book
titled, “Uncommon Sense.”
Contact him at GMollette@aol.
com and like his Facebook page at
www.facebook.com/glennmollette.
Church News
Native Americans say grizzly bear decision violates religion
HELENA, Mont. (AP)
— Native American tribes, clans
and leaders from seven states and
Canada say the U.S. government’s
recent decision to lift protections
for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone
National Park area violates their
religious freedom.
They are suing to block the
government from removing Yel-
lowstone grizzlies from the en-
dangered and threatened species
list, which would allow Montana,
Wyoming and Idaho to hold grizzly
bear hunts.
The Native American plain-
tiffs argue that trophy hunting for
grizzly bears goes against their
religious and spiritual beliefs. The
lawsuit filed June 30 asks a federal
judge to rule that the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service must consider the
Native Americans’ beliefs and con-
sult adequately with them before
removing grizzly protections that
have been in place since 1975.
“He is our relative. For us
Bear Clan members, he is our
uncle,” Ben Nuvamsa, a former
chairman of the Hopi Tribe in Ari-
zona, said Wednesday. “If that bear
is removed, that does impact our
ceremonies in that there would not
be a being, a religious icon that we
would know and recognize.”
The three states have not
planned any hunts for this year,
but have agreed to quotas and to
cease all hunting if the Yellowstone
population falls below 600 bears.
There are now about 700 in the
region.
Basing a legal challenge of an
Endangered Species Act decision
on religious beliefs and inadequate
tribal consultation has not been
tried before, said the plaintiffs’
attorney, Jeff Rasmussen. It’s an
argument that differs from those of
the conservation and wildlife ad-
vocacy groups who have also filed
intentions to sue over last month’s
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
decision.
“They don’t feel like they’ve
been listened to, both with re-
gard to their religious beliefs and
spiritual beliefs, and with regard
to some of the issues in this case,”
Rasmussen said. “They feel the
U.S. is not listening to them, and
we’re hoping to change that.”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vices and Department of Interior
officials declined to comment on
the lawsuit. U.S. Department of
Justice officials did not return a
call or email for comment.
The government began the
process of delisting the bears in
March 2016 under the Obama ad-
ministration, and received 650,000
public comments. The Fish and
Wildlife Service says on its web-
site it offered an opportunity to
government-to-government con-
sultation to 53 tribal governments
through letters, phone calls, emails
and webinars during that time.
It is government policy to
conduct direct consultations with
tribes, which are sovereign nations,
on Endangered Species Act issues.
The lawsuit alleges that gov-
ernment officials only contacted
four tribes initially, and only con-
tacted the others after the decision
had been made.“They promised
us that they would consult with us
before they made the decision,”
Nuvamsa said. “They reneged on
it.”
The plaintiffs are 17 tribes,
clans and individuals from Mon-
tana, South Dakota, North Dakota,
Wyoming, Arizona, New Mexico
and Canada. Rasmussen said two
more tribes from Nebraska and
South Dakota are being added.
Seventh-day Adventist Church
What made a difference?
Some time ago my brother Steve was in
graduate school to get his master’s in public
health at Loma Linda University. On Sun-
days Steve and his wife Peggy would join
my husband and I at our parents’ home for
Sunday lunch.
While sitting around their table our
conversation often would turn to what Steve
was learning in his classes.
At this time I was somewhat over
weight and really didn’t have much of a
healthy life style at all.
Steve explained to us how sugar im-
pairs our immune system. How important
it was to give our stomachs a rest between
meals.
He explained the importance of keeping
hydrated with fresh water.
Come to think about it I did remember
when “Stevie” was only 4 years old and we
were visiting him in the hospital. His case of
dehydration was so severe that I remember
looking at him in horror because of the long
needles in his little legs. They were giving
him water the hard way.
I knew the information Steve was shar-
ing with us was valid.
Looking back on those special memo-
ries of our family time together, I realize
what a difference my brother’s health teach-
ing made in my life.
I decide to put it into practice. I save
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407 W. River St., CJ
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113 S. Caves Ave., CJ
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Sunday Worship - 10:30 a.m.
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Awana - Wednesdays - 6 p.m.
sweets for once a week or for a very special
occasion. I stopped grazing between meals
so my over worked stomach could have a
rest.
I started drink water between meals.
Several months later I noticed I had lost
weight without even trying.
That was the beginning of my inter-
est in a healthy lifestyle. I continue to make
more changes so I will feel better all the
time.
