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2005-12-21 China-Japan-Koreas

VOA: Japan Calls Latest Nuclear Threat by North Korea 'Suicidal'

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Posted by 3dc 2005-12-21 01:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Will say again that the Norkies know they have realistic "manifest destiny" except to be a glorified, PC un-annexed province of mainland Commie China/PRC, and they know neither China nor Russia will ever allow them to possess a sizable independent nuke arsenal capable of threatening Beijing or Moscow, let alone Japan - by being bellicose they are as much committing NK-specific national suicide as much as they want the international community to believe they are sovereign and independent from China. Dubya's GMD, WHICH IS BEING DE FACTO DEV AND DEPLOYED, + Nuclearized Japan, etal. = China's ambitions of Chinese-centric, COMMUNIST, anti-US/West/Japan East Asian-Pacific hegemony is dead before it even begins.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-21 02:41|| 2005-12-21 02:41|| Front Page Top

#2 The kids are all growed-up arent they? One of the big pivotal areas of our age looks like it is going to be the indo-china region. Russia has enough internal problems to keep them busy, but china,nkor, skor and the japs are all jockeying for position. I'm not quite sure how india fits in to all this with them or us, but I can't see this turning out well for everyone.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2005-12-21 08:25|| 2005-12-21 08:25|| Front Page Top

#3 bigjim: The kids are all growed-up arent they? One of the big pivotal areas of our age looks like it is going to be the indo-china region. Russia has enough internal problems to keep them busy, but china,nkor, skor and the japs are all jockeying for position. I'm not quite sure how india fits in to all this with them or us, but I can't see this turning out well for everyone.

India's hoping we get into a scrap with China so that China is permanently weakened, and we get bloodied enough that we'll stay out of East, Central and South Asia. The Japanese are torn - are the Chinese their yellow brethren, or are they the Middle Kingdom of antiquity - always laying down the law to their neighbors, not to mention taking their land? The South Koreans are clueless - they think of the Chinese as their yellow brethren, even as China is on the verge of making North Korea a Chinese province. The North Koreans would probably prefer being ruled by the Chinese to being ruled by Kim Jong-Il. The Russians probably hope we'll get into a scrap with China, thereby removing China as a threat to Russia's territorial integrity and causing enough damage to Uncle Sam to get him to back off from East, Central and South Asia, all areas where Russia would like to think of as its traditional sphere of influence.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-12-21 17:42|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-12-21 17:42|| Front Page Top

#4 The policy is suicidal for many citizens of NK, but, like Stalin, I think Kim cares for the future prospects of a very small percentage of the local population.

Posted by Super Hose 2005-12-21 19:32|| 2005-12-21 19:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Japan needs to grow a brain and a nuclear arsenal, in that order.

Posted by Zenster 2005-12-21 19:54|| 2005-12-21 19:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Hi Zenster, please elaborate on your comment on the Japanese needing to grow a brain. I think the nuclear arsenal part will be taken care of in very short order, constitution notwithstanding. Things change. Please note I am not being anything other than interested in learning what you mean. Thanks.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2005-12-21 21:21|| 2005-12-21 21:21|| Front Page Top

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