Thank you for your coverage of the peace negotiations between North and South Korea.
Given that North Korea is well behind South Korea in its economic well-being, I feel President Donald Trump could offer a very broad-based Marshall Plan to North Korea as a means to persuade it to give up all its nuclear arms capability.
The old Marshall plan allocated more than $100 billion in aid to facilitate the economic recovery of all of Europe, including Germany.
This new plan might be called the Pompeo Plan, in honor of the new secretary of state.
Jay Pineda
Waikiki
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Pests are a risk to keiki health, too
The article, “Regulating pesticide use a life-or-death matter for our keiki,” by Zahava Zaidoff, is simply overdramatic (Star-Advertiser, Island Voices, April 5).
The main purpose of pesticides is to manage the pests that consume the crops that will increase our food production, provide profits for our local farmers and, most importantly, prevent diseases.
The main argument in this article was to not put the lives of our keiki at risk. I completely agree that we should not put our keiki in danger. However, without the use of pesticides, there would be more disease-infested pests in our communities.
If we don’t use pesticides, wouldn’t this be putting our keiki at risk as well?
Samantha Pang
McCully-Moiliili
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Women pilots take their place at last
Kudos to Capt. Tammie Jo Shults of Southwest Airlines (“Southwest pilot who landed crippled plane is Navy veteran with ‘nerves of steel,’” Star-Advertiser, April 18). She is a true hero.
As a former Pan Am flight attendant, I am delighted to see women in the cockpit. Once in 1973, leaving on a flight from HNL to LAX, another flight attendant and I stood at the boarding door waiting for the all-male crew to board and disappear into the cockpit. I casually mentioned that I looked forward to the day when women would be in the cockpit.
My coworker gasped, put her hand over her heart and declared, “I would never get on an airplane if a woman was in the cockpit!” Her eyes were filled with revulsion and a sneer curled her lips.
Tee hee! She who laughs last, laughs best!
Beth Rasmussen
Kaneohe
