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2009-06-03 China-Japan-Koreas

China says exchanges with N. Korea normal after nuclear test

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Posted by Fred 2009-06-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Yep twos peas in a pod China and North Korea, just staying cozy with one another. Hope they never venture below the 38th parallel again and take Seoul again. That would spell disaster.

Posted by Girlthursday 2009-06-03 01:19|| 2009-06-03 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 China fears a flood of NORK refuges more than it fears a North Korean A-Bomb.

Posted by Sockpuppet of Doom 2009-06-03 01:24|| 2009-06-03 01:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Sockpuppets are scarier:-)

Posted by Girlthursday 2009-06-03 01:32|| 2009-06-03 01:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately, none of the exchanges included nukes.

Posted by badanov 2009-06-03 07:50|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-06-03 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 They may be concerned about Nork refugees but I wonder how much of a problem that would really be.

Think about it: China is a country of 1.2 billion people. If Nork-land implodes, you'd have some refugees -- two million? Three? That's a drop in the bucket. Yes, yes, they'd all be along the border region in Manchuria, but the Chinese, particular with appeals to the SKors, the UN, and to gullible Uncle Sugar, could provide for them.

So to be honest I'm not sure how big an issue the refugee issue is.

Using the Norks as a sharp stick in our eyes, of course, makes them much more valuable to the Chinese.

Posted by Steve White 2009-06-03 08:21|| 2009-06-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#6 The Chinese are continually dealing with what, a hundred million internally displaced types? The whole "Chinese problem" is how to absorb their unneeded rural population into the new industrial economy. They're continually jogging ahead of the social-chaos freight train; somebody putting an extra ton or so of coal into the boiler can't be something the runners want to happen.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-06-03 08:54|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-06-03 08:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Refugees can learn to assemble calculators, small electronics, and small appliances that we Americans buy which soon break, for example, with or without a language barrier. Yay!! Boycott Chinese goods!!

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-06-03 09:05|| 2009-06-03 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Again, ala WORLD MIL FORUM, CHINA also apparently fears a CHERNOBYL-STYLE NORTH KOREAN NUCFAC INCIDENT???

* ION SAME > IIUC NORTH KOREA's NUCLEAR, MISSLE TESTS MAY INDUCE THE USA TO SEEK DELAY IN THE FORMAL TRANSFER [NLT April 2012] OF WARTIME OPERATIONAL CONTROL OF US FORCES IN SOUTH KOREA TO SEOUL. SOUTH KOREAN PRSIDENT LEE MYUNG-BAK CLAIMED LAST APRIL 2009 THE US HAS THE RIGHT UNDER TREATY TO SEEK DELAY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-03 22:17|| 2009-06-03 22:17|| Front Page Top

#9 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > seems INDIA is worried about SINO-PAK PLANS to dev a NEW RAILROAD STATION inside PAKISTAN [PRC using bilateral national infrastructure dev wid CHIn Allies to empower its local influence]. NEW DELHI VOWS TO COUNTER GROWING REGIONAL CHINESE INFLUENCE, as per these various cooper ventures.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-06-03 22:21|| 2009-06-03 22:21|| Front Page Top

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