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China-Japan-Koreas
Lee to Announce Seoul's Response to Cheonan Sinking
2010-05-24
President Lee Myung-bak is to announce South Korea's response on Monday morning to the sinking by North Korea of the Navy corvette Cheonan. Presidential spokesman Lee Dong-kwan said the response will include both independent action and international cooperation, such as asking the UN Security Council to tighten sanctions against the Stalinist country.
I thought the sanctions were already tight ...
The president is expected to ask the North to apologize and warn of a stronger response if Pyongyang should launch further provocations.
Like what ...
A senior presidential official said that could include "punitive military measures."

For the moment Seoul's hands are effectively tied as some 1,000 South Korean staff remain at the joint-Korean Kaesong Industrial Complex in the North.
That would be the first thing I'd fix.
After the president's address, the foreign, unification and defense ministers will hold a press conference at the Central Government Complex, where they are expected to announce specific steps by the government.

The steps may include UNSC sanctions; increased military alert and joint South Korea-U.S. defense preparedness; South Korea-U.S. anti-submarine exercises in the West Sea; a halt to all inter-Korean exchange and cooperation, except for the Kaesong industrial park; and a ban on North Korean ships passing through the Jeju Strait.
Posted by:Steve White

#11  Does anyone really know? Establishing what I know (which ain't much):
A) Kim gets regular monetary infusions
B) Kimmies Soldiery eat before civilians
C) They got Da bomb.
Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-05-24 16:42  

#10  Are you suggesting that NKorea's army is made up of a good portion of Chinese?
Posted by: Charles   2010-05-24 16:27  

#9   How can everyone be so damn sure? China lies, so does North Korea.

Good question. That is what people overlook. The Chinese will lie their asses off if they think it will help them get what they want.
Posted by: No I am the other Beldar   2010-05-24 16:16  

#8  How can everyone be so damn sure? China lies, so does North Korea.
Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-05-24 15:24  

#7  China turned Kimmie down when he came to Beijing and asked for aid.
Posted by: gromky   2010-05-24 15:18  

#6  that won't feed your troops or run your heavy artillery

Naw, but China might.
Posted by: GirlThursday   2010-05-24 14:36  

#5  that won't feed your troops or run your heavy artillery

both can run on New & Improved Juche
Posted by: Frank G   2010-05-24 14:34  

#4  NKor doesn't have the money or fuel or food for a war. They have an almost inexhaustible supply of bullshit, but that won't feed your troops or run your heavy artillery.
Posted by: bigjim-CA   2010-05-24 14:14  

#3  Dang. Mods please delete one.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2010-05-24 12:10  

#2  Prepare another sternly worded letter! That ought to teach them.

Then you have Obama chipping in with his own press release. The NKors must be shaking in their boots.

So what happens if the (I think of them as insane) NKors take this seriously? They are not rational actors.

Rhetoric precipitates war.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2010-05-24 12:10  

#1  What, not wagging of his finger?
Posted by: HammerHead   2010-05-24 09:05  

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