#2 OTOH WORLD MIL FORUM > IIUC ARTIC claims that during the 2003 KOREAN NUCLEAR CRISIS, CHINA secretly deployed approxi 200,000 armed troops to its borders wid NOKOR + MYANMAR, fka BURMA [ 100,000 +/- each], OSTENSIBLY TO DETER ANY US MILSTRIKES AGZ NORTH KOREA ANDOR CHINA PROPER FROM SAME. CHIN greatly feared a US STRATEGIC MIL STRIKE agz its soft underbelly emanating from MYANMAR-THAILAND REGIONS, besides also US Milfors based in JAPAN, etc. An ARMED CLASH took place between PLA SPECOPS + US ARMY DELTA FORCE [led?] MIXED? GROUP along the MYANMAR-THAIL borders resulting in casualties on both sides, espec for the USA = DELTA FORCE GROUP!?
IOW, CHIN feared an attack on its six or weak flanks as the bulk and focii of its PLA was agz RUSSIA, JAPAN [US], US-SOKOR + TAIWAN, NOT MYANMAR OR THAILAND, ETC. |
[Kyodo: Korea] The United States assured Japan on Monday that it has no plans to hold bilateral talks with North Korea outside a framework of the six-nation process on denuclearizing Pyongyang, senior Japanese officials said. Stephen Bosworth, the U.S. special representative for North Korea policy who is traveling around Asia for consultations on the North Korean issue, referred to the plan during separate meetings in Tokyo with Vice Foreign Minister Mitoji Yabunaka and Akitaka Saiki, director general of the Foreign MinistryŽs Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau.