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2011-12-22 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2011-12-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 China will totally resolve the DPRK's woes only iff China formally annexes the whole of the DPRK, which it is unlikely to do short of major war because it likes having a buffer = no man's land netween its borders + US allies ROK + JAPAN, + of course USFK.

China prefers to MINIMIZE a AMAP ALAP ny contact between border Chinese + Western-styled outsiders

Read, REDUCE THE CHANCE OF REFORM + DEMOCRACY-MINDED VIOLENT DOMESTIC REVOLUTIONS + CIVIL WARS AGZ THE COMMIE SYSTEM. Beijing knows that as the Chinese national economy + quality-of-life steadily improves + modernizes, it will have to face the music one day.

Preferably mucho later, NOT sooner.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-22 01:16|| 2011-12-22 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 BY most accounts, Beijing has way better odds of avoiding collapse in NT or LT than Pyongyang does - THEREIN LAYS THE DANGER FOR BOTH THE US-ALLIES + CHINA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-12-22 01:19|| 2011-12-22 01:19|| Front Page Top

#3 China views North Korea as 'historically' part of Greater China, whether as a province or a client state. If the quarter million ComChi army that was unleashed upon the peninsula had succeeded in their objective during the Korean War, the entire place would look like North Korea today. It has no interests in 'helping'.

Posted by P2Kontheroad 2011-12-22 07:47|| 2011-12-22 07:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Use a big enough antigravity generator, and it'll just fly off into space.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-12-22 11:02|| 2011-12-22 11:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Or we could quietly contact China and tell them, curb N. Korea or we inform S. Korea, Japan, & Taiwan that we plan to pull out of the region within 18 months & we suggest they develop their own nukes.

Posted by Cincinnatus Chili 2011-12-22 12:04|| 2011-12-22 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 Those cheapo one-shot pistols the OSS used to drop behind Nazi lines might make a nice present...

Posted by mojo 2011-12-22 13:01|| 2011-12-22 13:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Noted.

Posted by newc 2011-12-22 18:08|| 2011-12-22 18:08|| Front Page Top

#8 It may be news to academic innocents and incubator-raised policy wonks, but history tells us NKor is pretty much the natural state of the world when events are left to unfold on their own. The only thing that changes it is determined men and the force of arms. Yeah, that sometimes means guns, you wankers.

Two thumbs up on rebooting the OSS.

Posted by SteveS 2011-12-22 21:46|| 2011-12-22 21:46|| Front Page Top

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