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2010-12-31 China-Japan-Koreas

S. Korea rules out absorbing N. Korea: official

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Posted by Steve White 2010-12-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Uncle Sugar's done

Posted by Frank G 2010-12-31 00:23|| 2010-12-31 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 It's the Helmut Cole deal with East and West Germany, Though yet so different as the entire country of NORK is a Gulag.

Posted by newc 2010-12-31 00:38|| 2010-12-31 00:38|| Front Page Top

#3 AFAIK this Artic only means that the SOKORS will not rush into integration + reunification wid the North.

* CHINESE MIL FORUM POSTERS > SOUTH KOREA U-TURNS ON TALKS [Beijing successfully convinces wary Seoul to return to talks]; + SOUTH KOREA IS ALSO TALKING ABOUT [conditional]DISMANTLING ITS OWN NUCLEAR PROGRAM.

* OTOH WAFF > CHINA IS PREPARED FOR WAR! | CHINA'S BOOOMING ECONOMY FUELING MILITARY MIGHT.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-31 05:47|| NA 2010-12-31 05:47|| Front Page Top

#4 The logical thing for the South to do, if the North gets a more peaceful government, is to first flood the North with food in exchange for demilitarization (pointed South, that is), then send up aid to help them reestablish their agriculture.

Then it would be one major project a year to help the North raise itself up. Because the more they can help themselves, first, the better it will be in the long run.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-31 07:51|| 2010-12-31 07:51|| Front Page Top

#5 "All yours, China. You made the shit sandwich, now you get to eat it."

Posted by mojo 2010-12-31 12:00|| 2010-12-31 12:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Mojo, that would be nice. But to make a rough analogy, Russia made the shit sandwich once known as the DDR - yet it's West Germans who've had Solidarity tax deducted from their paychecks for 20 years now. All while 20-25% of (formerly) East Germans continue voting for the Communist Party, because free markets are just too mean and scary.

IIUC, SKs have been keen observers of German reunification, and would vastly prefer something like Anonymoose's plan - which would be better all round.

Posted by RandomJD 2010-12-31 23:47|| 2010-12-31 23:47|| Front Page Top

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