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2013-10-07 China-Japan-Koreas

Korea, U.S. Delay Decision About Troop Control Handover

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Posted by Steve White 2013-10-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Perhaps the real reason is that SKor wants to talk with a grown up and not Champ or one of his minions.....

Posted by USN, Ret. 2013-10-07 00:07|| 2013-10-07 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 If the budget/economy tanks, most likely there won't be any talks, just an exit. I doubt any of the countries currently on the military welfare rolls are planning to pick up the whole tab of keeping the Americans around.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-10-07 07:30|| 2013-10-07 07:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Good Political "Dialecticism" = combo of factors, not just one or two = ...
> China slamming Japan for its agreement to base US UAVS, X-Band ABM-BMD Radars, F-35's, Ospreys, + Cyberwar assets on its soil.
> Pending arrival of new US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
> NOKOR's anticipated upcoming Nuke test + reports it has dev a small Tacnuke warhead.
> FYI the US + SOKOR have reinterated their agreement to preemptively attack NOKOR's
milfors iff the latter shows clear signs of deploying de facto Nuke-WMD weapons in war.

The US knows that any China-involved mil conflict in East Asia will focus on PLA attempts to dominate iff not takeover the OKINAWA-TAIWAN-NORTHERN PHIL TRIANGLE, i.e. "Mahanist" China's equivalent of "Hawaii/Pearl Harbor" + other Pacific Islands into WESTPAC + FAR EASTERN PACIFIC to achieve greater international status.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-10-07 19:50|| 2013-10-07 19:50|| Front Page Top

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