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2013-04-18 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea Bars South Delegation from Kaesong

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Posted by Fred 2013-04-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1 last week Pudgy was all over the news.
this week nothing.
I still wonder if N. Korea was paid heaps of (foreign) cash to stage that whole act ... just to benefit someone else (i.e. Iran or China).

Raider

Posted by Raider 2013-04-18 01:02|| 2013-04-18 01:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Fear notteth, NOKOR says they remain technically in a "state of nuclear war" wid the US. Also, the Chinese PLAN took over from the CMS-SOA in violating Japan's territorial waters near the Senkakus.

I suspect KJU + First Babe + Baby Pudgy are relaxing in a sauna somewhere.

Meanwhile ...

* WORLD NEWS > "STOP ENCROACHING ON OUR TERRITORY", CHINA [again] WARNS JAPAN.

Beijing unhappy wid Tokyo's new bbilateral fishing agreement wid Taiwan in disputed Senkakus/Diaoyus + Japan EEZ, as IIUC the new agreement effectively Japan's + Taiwan's EEZ to the other [ + by extens also their Military-specific areas of responsibility, security espec Nippon's].

* SAME, TOPIX > CHINA CRITICIZES US MILITARY PRESENCE, BUILDUP IN ASIA.

PRC Defence Ministry would once again like the World to know that CHINA HAS NO OVERSEAS MILBASES.

Y-E-T.

* WORLD NEWS > [Stars-N-Stripes] PHILIPPINES: US BASES TO RETURN ONLY IN CASE OF WAR OR EMERGENCY.

When talking about the Cold War USSR/CPSU + now China, that may be a bit too little, too late for Macalanang.

* TOPIX > [WaPo] NORTH KOREA WANTS WITHDRAWAL OF SANCTIONS, [guaranteed/absolute] END TO US-SOUTH KOREA MILITARY DRILLS AS PRE-CONDITIONS FOR [Nuclear] TALKS.

* SAME > KERRY: NORTH KOREA WILL COLLAPSE WIDOUT CHINESE SUPPORT.

Nothing gets by US SecState Jaaawhn "I was in Cambodia - You know, Laos" Kerry, does it???

* DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND > [SMH = Aussie Strategic Policy Institute] US STRATEGY ["AirSea Battle] COULD RESULT IN NUCLEAR WAR (wid China), which could possib involve Australia as a US Ally.

* RIAN.RU, TOPIX > NORTH KOREA WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED INTO "NUCLEAR CLUB": UN CHIEF.

* SAME > KOREAN WAR UNLIKELY. BUT RISKS REMAIN FOR RUSSIA.

Most realistic threat in Moscow's mind is NOT full-scale DPRK military attack or war agz the ROK, but 5-6 ROK NucPlants = New/Mini-CHERNOBYLS going boom in the night thanks to wily sneaky DPRK Commando-Saboteur actions in peacetime.

* SAME > RUSSIA TO BASE FRENCH-MADE ASSAULT SHIPS ["Mistral"-class] IN [2 ea.]FAR EAST PORTS, i.e. Vladivostok + Petropavlovsk-Khamchitsy, albeit one may end up being transferred over to the Northern Fleet in time.

* SPACE WAR > CHINA FACES THREATS BUT WILL DEFEND ITSELF: GOVERNMENT.

Thats what I thought.

versus

* TOPIX > [US Senate Armed Services Cmte] REPORT:US FOSTERING GREATER BILL FOR OVERSEAS BASES, in Germany, Japan, + SOKOR.

Going down since Monday, my bad vibes on China-vs-Japan-vs-Debt/Sequester-ridden-USA just went up again.

* SAME > DEMPSEY: US MUST DESTROY NORTH KOREA MISSLE BASES, NOT JUST SHOOTDOWN MISSLES | US WARNS OF ATTACKS ON ENEMY MISSLE BASES [North Korea].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-18 02:44|| 2013-04-18 02:44|| Front Page Top

#3 1960's Guam Taotamonas liked Mel Gibson in mid-1980's MAD MAX: BEYOND THE THUNDERDOME, + Tina Turner, but thats besides the point.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-18 02:47|| 2013-04-18 02:47|| Front Page Top

#4 In kim-jong north korea, the bars close down you.

/spent, the smiles aint happening

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-04-18 19:00|| 2013-04-18 19:00|| Front Page Top

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