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| Norks threaten to put troops at factory park | |||
| 2013-07-26 | |||
North Korea on Thursday threatened to re-station troops at a stalled inter-Korean factory park located just across the tense border separating the two Koreas, as minor scuffles reportedly broke out between delegates from the rivals after failed talks meant to restart the complex.
Analysts said the latest threat was an effort to pressure Seoul to agree to a quick reopening of the industrial complex, which provided badly needed hard currency to Pyongyang. The complex was shut in April amid dueling threats of war following UN sanctions against North KoreaÂ’s February nuclear test. Pool reports from South Korean media stationed outside the closed-door meeting at Kaesong between the Koreas said frustrated North Koreans issued the warning directly to South Korean reporters after the talks ended without a breakthrough. The reports said that brief scuffles erupted as Seoul officials tried to stop North Koreans from talking to journalists. The pool reports said the North Korean delegates also distributed documents about speeches and proposals they made during the talks with South Korea. South Korean officials tried to retrieve the documents from South Korean reporters, triggering protests from the reporters, the reports said.
Later on Thursday, South Korean Unification Ministry spokesman Kim Hyung-suk told reporters that Seoul would “make a grave decision” if North Korea doesn’t provide a guarantee that it won’t engineer future unilateral Kaesong shutdowns.
Chief South Korean delegate Kim Kiwoong told reporters that there were big differences between the Koreas on the matter of SeoulÂ’s desire for the guarantee. | |||
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 You just don't joint venture with people who are bat sh!t crazy. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2013-07-26 21:14 |
| #5 Someone needs to teach the South Koreans the word meh. North Korea isn't worth anything. Wall it off and ignore them until they implode. |
| Posted by: gorb 2013-07-26 15:19 |
| #4 Why would they continue to engage these lunatics? Shut it down. Let em starve |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-07-26 10:02 |
| #3 More from WORLD MILITARY FORUM ... * SAME > RETIRED USCNO GARY ROUGHEAD TELLS US CONGRESS THAT AMERICA WILL SEE RISE OF THE PLA, + INTENSIVE BUT "INEVITABLE" SINO-US MILITARY COMPETITION. ROUGHEAD + OTHER US EXPERTS WARN THAT THE US RELATIONSHIP WID CHINA WILL ULTIMATELY DETERMINE OR DEFINE THE STRATEGIC SITUATION, US-VS-CHINA + GEOPOL BALANCE OF POWER IN ASIA-PACIFIC. * SAME > JAPAN MUST ADAPT TO CHINESE MILITARY WARSHIPS + AIRCRAFT FREQUENTLY CROSSING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" INCLUDING JAPAN-CLAIMED DISPUTED ISLANDS. * SAME > RENOWNED 20TH CENTURY FORMER US SECSTATE JOHN FOSTER DULLES' CONCEPT OF ANTI-CHINA "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" NOW IRREVOCABLY "TORN TO PIECES: US + ITS EAST ASIA ALLIES ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO STOP, PREVENT, OR CHALLENGE PLA MILTARY ASSETS FROM TRAVELING THROUGH THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" AT WILL. CHINA + PLA SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTS "UNIVERSAL LINKAGE" OF SOUTH CHINA SEA, EAST CHINA SEA, YELLOW SEA, + SEA OF JAPAN WID WESTPAC + NORPAC OCEANS. * SAME > USDOD "SURGES" IN ASIA-PACIFIC WID SE ASIAN ALLIES ALREADY HALF-DESTABILIZED BY CHINA. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-26 02:58 |
| #2 * ION DAILY TIMES.PK > DREAM OF [Inter-Korean] REUNIFICATION FADES IN SOUTH KOREA. As said or inferred times before, as per empowerment of DPRK-ROK Reunification it may be in the strategic interests of the US + ROK + UNCOM, etal. to allow the DPRK to have indigenous Nukes in complementary wid the ROK. REMINDER > YEAR 2018 = may see not only the formal establishment of US-led GMD-TMD in both Japan + ROK, etc. East Asia allies BUT ALSO THE AMENDMENT OF JAPAN'S POSTWAR CONSTITUTION TO ALLOW FOR A STRONG NIPPON MILITARY + ESPEC JAPAN'S DEV OR PROCUREMENT OF NUCWEAPONS. Another way of saying the above is that "post-US" wannabe China has roughly until 2018 = end of the Bammer 2nd POTUS term [Jan 2017] to reunify wid Taiwan + break the barriers of the "First Island Chain" LEST IT GIVE UP ITS ANTI/POST-US "MANIFEST DESTINY" UNTIL 2080-2100 [iff not later]. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > PACIFIST JAPAN NO MORE? TOKYO TO CONSIDER PRE-EMPTIVE STRIKE CAPABILITY? RT NEWS. * SAME BLOGGER > reminded that the China considers the "First Island Chain", espec the waters between mainland Japan + Taiwan + Northern Philippines as its ALL-IMPORTANT "FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE" AGZ THE US-ALLIES. * TOPIX > JAPAN INTERIM DEFENSE PAPER [White Paper] SAYS DRONES, MARINES [Nippon Marine Corps = potent RRF/RDF Amphibs]NEEDED AGZ THREAT FROM CHINA, NORTH KOREA. * Also from TOPIX > CHINA'S "SALAMI-SLICE" STRATEGY". Sniff, sniff, is there no love for Bologna??? * SAME = ABE SEEKS TO "CONTAIN" BEIJING, SAYS EXPERT. * WORLD MILITARY FORUM > CHINESE FLEET THROUGH SOYA STRAIT INTENDED TO OPEN UP DIFFICULT NAVAL ROUTES INTO NORPAC, WESTPAC + ARCTIC VEE WATERS CLOSELY MONITORED OR CONTROLLED BY US, RUSSIA, + JAPAN. * DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > MURDER SHEDS LIGHT ON CHINA EXPANSION, ENCIRCLEMENT OF INDIA, i.e. projection of PLA power to the Persian Gulf, Arabian Peninsula [KSA], + IOR vee Pakistan + Sri Lanka ports | [Toronto Sun] IS CHINA SLOWLY TIGHTENING THE NOSE AROUND INDIA'S NECK? * INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > CHINA UNVEILS [revamped = reorg, ARMED] COAST GUARD TO HANDLE SEA CONFLICTS. We're all PLAN now??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-07-26 01:59 |
| #1 It's like visiting weird Uncle Earl who still lives on the family farm. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-07-26 01:45 |