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2006-07-08 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Fred 2006-07-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 There will be a quarantine. Whether the UN approves is another question.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-07-08 06:59|| 2006-07-08 06:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Fuck the UN. Whether China complies is the only question. Taiwan's missile test (and possible nuke capability) and Japanese rearming have made NK a liability now. No more fun "stick in the Us's eye" with their puppet any more. Kim's past his usefulness

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-07-08 09:54|| 2006-07-08 09:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Spot on, Frank. One other benefit: the Sorks will be crapping their pants over this. They've been damned standoffish to the US ever since Roh was elected. His party just got its butt handed to them because the country finally woke up to the fact that without the US on their side they're just an undersized punk in a real tough neighborhood.

That said, nobody in Sorkland wants to see Kimmie's Krazy Koop collapse because they know they'll be expected to foot the bill and they don't want any part of cleaning up those Augean stables. What they want is the status quo even if it means NKoreans in concentration camps and mass graves. Anything that upsets it and threatens to hand them the Nkor disaster afterward they won't like.

Posted by mac 2006-07-08 11:01|| 2006-07-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#4 mac brings up a point that I have been pondering about for quite some time. If the SKors do not want Kimmie to collapse, it is really because they do not want to foot the bill?

I mean, WTF kind of a rationale is that, if true? If the Norks collapse, I am sure that we could get many countries in the world to help foot the bill to get the people of North Korea back on their feet. It would be a coalition that would be a joy to join.

So it seems that maybe SKor is like the battered wife. Willing to live with the status quo for fear of what really bad could happen. I realize that Seoul is a serious target. However, as long as Kimmie and the Norks are in power, they will always use the threat of a barrage on Seoul as a club to threaten SKor.

The other thing that jumps out at me is that the Chicoms have the greatest power to control the actions of their mad little dog Kimmie. Yet they use him as a tool to get at Japan, the US and others. If they want to do business like that, I do not think that the palzy-walzy status quo relations with the US should continue. There must be consequences for such actions. The current crop of China policy gurus I trust as much as the Chicoms. They are as much an enemy as the PLA is.

My 2 cents.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-07-08 15:13|| 2006-07-08 15:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Fuck the UN. Whether China complies is the only question. Taiwan's missile test (and possible nuke capability) and Japanese rearming have made NK a liability now. No more fun "stick in the Us's eye" with their puppet any more. Kim's past his usefulness

Japan
India
Taiwan
SKor

If the USA were to change it's policy of One China recognition [over the screaming dead bodies of multinational corp.-ses] and we slapped the SKors into shape, we'd have China in a fairly good box...

It's no secrete that one of China's key strategic interests is Taiwan and they will forever try and inject it into any international bargain, even unrelated ones, and extract any concessions possible. Sometimes it seems as if almost all things else are secondary to them.

Posted by RD 2006-07-08 15:35|| 2006-07-08 15:35|| Front Page Top

#6 I envision a quiet conversation between the US Ambassador to China and the Chinese FM:

US Amb: Kim is destabilizing the region.
China: Sure, but what can be done.
US Amb: Be a shame if Taiwan and Japan felt so threatened that they developed nukes and missile delivery systems. Be a shame if someone quietly helped them.
China: Uh, you may have a point, I'll look into it. (In Chinese to flunky) - have that bastard Kim whacked tomorrow.

Posted by DMFD 2006-07-08 17:51|| 2006-07-08 17:51|| Front Page Top

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