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China-Japan-Koreas
S. Korea, Japan 'Seek 1st-Ever Military Pact'
2011-01-05
Bet the folks in Beijing are real happy about this...
Japanese Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa will visit Seoul next month for talks with his South Korean counterpart Kim Kwan-jin over agreements on mutual military support and the sharing of military secrets.

Seoul and Tokyo reportedly plan to sign the agreements this year. They would mark South Korea's first-ever military pacts with the former colonial power following several memorandums of understanding in the past. Military experts believe the aim is to deal with an emergency on the Korean Peninsula including the collapse of North Korea, but the Defense Ministry denies the plans.
Or an invasion, but invasion and collapse might be one and the same.
Responding to a Japanese media report, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said, "We have not considered or discussed the new declaration with Japan." The Yomiuri Shimbun reported the two countries are preparing a joint declaration to be signed when President Lee Myung-bak visits Tokyo in the first half of this year.
Posted by:Steve White

#6  They're not getting married, they're arranging how to deal with the nutcase on the block.

Strange bedfellows, though.
Posted by: mojo   2011-01-05 15:56  

#5  One bad multi-year drought, and the world will see the Chinese Army moving north and south to "reconnect lost pieces of China to the Chinese homeland" again. It worked for them in Tibet and on the border with India, so they will recycle the rationale.
Posted by: Shieldwolf   2011-01-05 13:31  

#4  I bet China didn't count on this. Good to see it.
Posted by: DarthVader   2011-01-05 11:11  

#3  China may need up to 300 Years to recover lost or damaged lands

Israel has successful experience in that area...
Posted by: trailing wife   2011-01-05 07:29  

#2  Pragmatically, CHINA may move into the DPRK + elsewhere due to...

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA MAKES GAIN IN BATTLE AGZ DESERTIFICATION, BUT HAS A LONG FIGHT AHEAD [Over 1/4 of China is environ degraded + slowly turning into DESERT, China may need up to 300 Years to recover lost or damaged lands].
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-05 01:27  

#1  BEIJING = CHINA should be real titillated about..

* PEOPLES DAILY > JAPAN OPEN TO TALKS WITH NORTH KOREA [this year]: FOREIGN MINISTER [SEijii Maehara].

* SAME > CHINA'S ANTI-CARRIER MISSLE [DF-21's] NOY YET EFFECTIVE: ANALYSTS [US Navy = ONI]. The Navy considers the DF-21 ASBMS as a "WORKING DESIGN" ONLY THAT WILL NEED SEVERAL MORE YEARS OF DEV, IMPROVEMENT TO BECOME A TRUE THREAT TO US CARRIERS.

versus

* SAME > WHY CHINA IS STILL ANXIOUS?

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > WATCH OUT FOR RUSSIA'S "WILD CARD" IN ASIA-PACIFIC.

ARTIC = Iff Russia fails to secure its Far east, it will likely LOSE EVERYTHING THERE TO CHINA IN TIME, THE KEY TO CONTROL OF EURASIA IS CONTROL OF ITS WEST, SOUTH, + EAST ASIA REGIONS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-01-05 01:15  

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