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China-Japan-Koreas

Lurch Urges Talks as N. Korea Keeps Missile Card Close

2013-04-16

[An Nahar] U.S. Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry
Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat, conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State...
pushed a message of dialogue with

North Korea at the end of an Asia tour on Monday, as Pyongyang kept the world guessing over an expected missile launch.

The North has a habit of linking high-profile military tests with key dates, and expectations had been high of a mid-range missile test to coincide with Monday's celebrations marking the birth of its late founding leader Kim Il-Sung.

But unlike the centennial birth anniversary last year, there was no muscular military parade through the center of Pyongyang and officials in Seoul said the "missile watch" could drag on for days.

North Korea and the soaring tensions on the Korean peninsula dominated Kerry's whirlwind tour of South Korea, China and Japan, with the top U.S. diplomat stressing a willingness to "reach out" to Pyongyang.

Kerry, who met with Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the final leg of his trip in Tokyo on Monday, said Washington was open to "authentic and credible" negotiations.

"But the burden is on Pyongyang," he said, adding that the North had to take "meaningful steps" to show it would honor past commitments.

Posted by:Fred

#1 See TOPIX > [Lucianne = Commentary Magazine] IS US FOLDING ON NORTH KOREA?

US SecState Kerry's statements, although appearing to be quite reasonable on the surface, IS MORE LIKELY TO BE INTERPRETED AS DE FACTO US
"WEAKNESS" BY NOKOR, IRAN, + LIKE, + TREATED OR HANDLED BY THEM AS SUCH.

versus

* SAME > [Japan Herald] NATO CHIEF WARNS OF COLLECTIVE DEFENSE IFF NORTH KOREA ATTACKS THE US.

NATO's got the Bammer's six.

* SAME > NORTH KOREA SAYS IT WON'T WARN SOUTH ON ATTACK.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Chosun Ilbo = Xinhua] MAOS'S GRANDSON [Mao Xingu] CALLS ON NORTH KOREA TO ABANDON NUKES.

IIUC, iff the DPRK disses Mao Xingu it will be interpreted by China as serious disrespect of Mao Zedong/Tse-Tung's = China's military intervention [ + lives lost, maimed]on behalf of the DPRK back in November 1950 agz MacArthur's Boyz. HILARITY BETWEEN CHINA + NORTH KOREA MAY NOT ENSUE.

Personally, I'm interpreting this as potens worsening relations between Pudgy + Beijing, + increasingly the risk of Chinese + PLA takeover of the North. AGAIN, CHINA STANDS TO TAKEOVER THE DPRK DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY REGARDLESS OF TYPE/KIND OF COLLAPSE SCENARIO, + GIVEN ITS PRESENT STANDOFF VEE JAPAN OER THE DISPUTED SENKAKUS/DIAOYUS WOULD ONLY SERVE TO PLACE THE PLA THAT MUCH CLOSER TO JAPAN = US MILBASES ON OKINAWA, + TAIWAN + NORTHERN PHIL.

["RETURN OF THE JEDI" BATTLE OF ENDOR = "ITS A TRAP"! here].

FYI China has once again violated Japan's 12-mile territorial limit around the disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus.

HISTOIRE' SAYS CHINA IS "PREPPING THE COMING BATTLEFIELD", + IS GETTING READY TO OPEN FIRE ON JAPAN + JSDFS AT A TIME OF ITS CHOOSING.

Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-04-16 01:05

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