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2009-02-02 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea warns of possible war with South Korea

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 They sense a week US President who would not stand behind South Korea at a time when the US is going to begin gutting the military financially.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-02-02 02:52|| 2009-02-02 02:52|| Front Page Top

#2 So, if China stays out of it as well...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-02 03:52|| 2009-02-02 03:52|| Front Page Top

#3 NK has two powerful weapons - bluffing and the fact that SK is scared that they may have to absorb NK after a war, a la, West Germany's absorptin of East Germany.They may be enough to get SKJ to back off for awhile.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-02-02 07:57|| 2009-02-02 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 How would the Nkor's sustain an offensive that would bog down almost immediately in a orgy of looting and eating?

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-02 09:18|| 2009-02-02 09:18|| Front Page Top

#5 Bomb them with twinkies and watch the desertion rate go past 90%.

Seriously, all the South needs to do is to hold fast for a month. There's no food, no fuel, and only the uniforms on the soldiers' backs. What reserves they have would be exhausted within a month, and they'd be nothing but a force in being, ready to be picked off.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2009-02-02 10:39|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-02 10:39|| Front Page Top

#6 dunno, OP. That could be a mistake, Twinkies make you crazy and vicious__ at least that's what Dan White said after he capped Moscone and Milk. Missed Feinstein though.....

Posted by Andy Whaiger9218 2009-02-02 12:14|| 2009-02-02 12:14|| Front Page Top

#7 The US and China should sign some kinda treaty promising too stay out of it and let em get it on. I know i'm not the only one tired of hearing this shit

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-02 12:24|| 2009-02-02 12:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Aren't they technically still at war from that little contretemps during the middle of the last century?

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2009-02-02 13:08|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2009-02-02 13:08|| Front Page Top

#9 The south isn't the same South Korea of the 1950s. They would smack the Norks around then throw them back across the border.

The question remains, what to do with them once beaten? Richard is right. Taking over the North would bankrupt the South without massive global aid.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-02-02 14:50|| 2009-02-02 14:50|| Front Page Top

#10 "I'm a DICTATOR ON TEH EDGE here, people! I'm not foolin'!"

Posted by mojo 2009-02-02 17:25|| 2009-02-02 17:25|| Front Page Top

#11 bring home our men and women soldiers. then fight away kim-chi killaz...

Posted by havenoodle55 2009-02-02 18:12|| 2009-02-02 18:12|| Front Page Top

#12 FREEREPUBLIC/TOPIX > BREAKING: NORTH KOREA PREPARING FOR BALLISTIC MISSLE [Test?] LAUNCH [ ALASKA = FORT GREELY BMD Base, GET READY FOR INCOMING]??? "Object" believed to be a TAIPONGDONG-2 - PROB A TEST LAUNCH BUT NOT YET CONFIRMED.

* ION NOKOR, WORLD MIL FORUM [paraph = GOOGLE Chinglish translation] > KORAN MEDIAS: NEW OBAMA ADMINISTRATION FAVORS CHINA, JAPAN OVER KOREAN PENINSULA [ SOKOR/Pan-KOREAN ISSUES]???

SAME > ASIA REDRAWN: MOST LIKELY NEW ASIA ORDER SCENARIOS -

To wit,

* CLOSER US-JAPAN COOPER = MILPOLECON BI-NATION ALLIANCE? POLITICAL UNIFICATION [Future US State in ASIA???
* CHINA-TAIWAN UNIFICATION [including CHIN-CONTROL OF NORTH KOREA?
* ISOLATED SOVEREIGN SOUTH KOREA?
* ISOLATED SOVEREIGN RUSSIA, or in the ALTERN LOSS OF RUSS FAR EAST = SIBERIA, ETC. BY A WEAK RUSS TO CHINA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-02 22:34|| 2009-02-02 22:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Again, Year 2009 - 2012 [2016] POST-DUBYA PERIOD = NEW OBAMA ADMIN > = BANNER PERIOD FOR POPCORN STOCK FUTURES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-02-02 22:36|| 2009-02-02 22:36|| Front Page Top

#14 lmao mojo

Posted by rabid whitetail 2009-02-02 22:58|| 2009-02-02 22:58|| Front Page Top

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