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2009-11-09 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2009-11-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 A military source said the decision to keep the Eighth Army in South Korea is part of efforts to alleviate fears among South Koreans about the transfer of the operational control.

What, no parades were planned to celebrate our departure?

Posted by gorb 2009-11-09 00:30|| 2009-11-09 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 Mebbe one day the U.S. Army will be stationed in both Koreas. We didn't listen to Mac and are still paying the price more than a half-century later.

Posted by borgboy 2009-11-09 01:06|| 2009-11-09 01:06|| Front Page Top

#3 OOOOOO, lessirree, IIRC STARS-N-STRIPES > seems JAPAN IS REPOR USING WEAPONS-GRADE PLUTONIUM TO POWER ITS NUCLEAR REACTORS.

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-09 02:02|| na]">[na] 2009-11-09 02:02|| Front Page Top

#4 Does anyone know if that's even possible?

I understand that Japan has positioned to be able to break out if necessary, maybe that's what is being referred to here.

Posted by gorb 2009-11-09 03:05|| 2009-11-09 03:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Japan has been "burning" weapons grade plutonium in its reactors for decades. We have been providing a lot of it, too. Some of it came from Russia, some from the US.

Even a conventional reactor starts out with uranium fuel. As fission progresses, a lot of the uranium is converted to plutonium. By the time the fuel is "spent", most of the reaction taking place is plutonium.

Google around for an article titled: Smarter Use of Nuclear Waste

Posted by crosspatch 2009-11-09 03:33|| 2009-11-09 03:33|| Front Page Top

#6 MOX fuel.

Posted by ed 2009-11-09 07:24|| 2009-11-09 07:24|| Front Page Top

#7 borgboy: There may be just the opposite outcome. That is, the Chinese might be persuaded that a South Korea led unified Korea is not unacceptable. In fact, it could be very profitable for China as long as the Koreans kept tight border controls.

China could then get send a lot of annoying North Korean illegals home, the South would be busy for decades rebuilding the North. But, very importantly to the Chinese, the Koreans culturally follow "the Chinese Way", which forgives them countless sins.

But this would be dependent on the US 8th Army slowly withdrawing from Korea, just keeping a naval base at Pusan.

If done slowly and gradually, so that the Chinese, the Koreans and the US are comfortable, it could evolve into a much less expensive security situation for the US.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-09 07:51|| 2009-11-09 07:51|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm under the impression that many of those annoying North Korean illegals are female, Anonymoose, and therefore are replacing the missing Chinese females for the lower classes. Am I mistaken?

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-11-09 09:14|| 2009-11-09 09:14|| Front Page Top

#9 trailing wife: I have no clue on that one. However, China is looking at 30m+ males with no chance, so I doubt that Nork women could take up much of that slack.

Add to that that most of the Norks have been so utterly ground down with perpetual malnutrition that many are retarded, diseased, etc. This is not something pleasant to contemplate.

Posted by Anonymoose 2009-11-09 09:40|| 2009-11-09 09:40|| Front Page Top

#10 Iff ISLAMIST IRAN indeed goes NUKULAAR NLT 2012 as antcipated, as per STRATWEAPS = NUCMILTECHS, the USA may wanna consider reactivating the TENTH ARMY [ASIA-WIDE Nuke-WMD MIlitancy Scenarios, not just the Koreas]???

Posted by JosephMendiola">JosephMendiola 2009-11-09 18:07|| na]">[na] 2009-11-09 18:07|| Front Page Top

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