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| N Korea makes fresh talks offer |
| 2011-01-09 |
| [Al Jazeera] North Korea has reiterated a proposal for unconditional talks with South Korea, in an apparent bid to ease tensions on the peninsula. The North's latest offer comes days after South Korea dismissed earlier calls for negotiation from the country. "We do not want to see the present South Korean authorities pass the five-year term of their office idly without North-South dialogue," the North's Committee for Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in a statement. "There is neither conditionality in the North's proposal for dialogue nor need to cast any doubt about its real intention." The statement was released to the country's official Korean Central News Agency. Chun Hae-Sung, a South Korean unification ministry official, said South Korea will review the latest offer but that the North has not sent an official request for talks. The South had earlier this week dismissed calls for talks by the North, saying the country should show that it has changed through actions, rather than words. Lee Jong-Joo, a South Korean unification ministry front man, said this fresh offer for talks was more concrete than the previous one. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > US + JAPAN [broadly]AGREE TO COOPERATE ON SECURITY. More details to be revealed after SecDef Gates visit. * SAME > CHINA READY TO BUY BRITISH HMS INVINCIBLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER?, indirectly via PCorrect-Deniable, Proxy? "Private" sale to major Hong Kong businessman??? * SAME > [Video] MORE [CPLAN] NAVAL SHIPS GATHERED IN THE NAVAL BASE AT HAINAN ISLAND. Read, INDIA + RUSSIA + JAPAN + US, etc. IN VIETNAM = CHINA-CLAIMED SOUTH CHINA SEA. * SAME > US NAVY INTEL CHIEF: CHINESE MISSLE [Anti-Carrier = DF-21D ASBM] IS EFFECTIVE. * SAME > US STUDY SAYS THAT CHINA'S NEW CARRIER-BASED AIRCRAFT PERFORMANCE WILL EXCEED/SURPASS US "SUPER-HORNET". * SAME > CHINA'S NEW SHENGLONG SPACEPLANE FLEW SUCCESSFULLY. Test flight. CHIN NETTERS > a number of MilBloggers are in favor of Beijing + PLA converting new J20 + Spaceplane into LR Strike, Space Stealth Bombers, TO BOMB GUAM + HAWAII + of course the JAPANESE in righteous Anti-US, anti-JAPAN indignation??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-09 01:28 |
| #1 TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS > SOUTH KOREA TO [closely]PROBE/ANALYZE NORTH TALKS OFFER. Words, impressions, + proper Korye syntax...@. * ION PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > US STUDY SAYS PLA MILITARY DRIVE TARGETS TAIWAN. ARTIC = CHINA may be willing = planning to unilater ESCALATE a US-CHINA CONFRONTATION OER TAIWAN BY LAUNCHING A CONVENTIONAL-ONLY "FIRST STRIKE" OR "PREMMPTIVE STRIKE" AGZ REGIONAL US BASES BEFORE ALSO LAUNCHING A MASSIVE, "D *** THE TORPEDOES/CABBAGE" [= Casualties] FOLLOW-ON PLA CONVENTIONAL BLITZ AGZ TAIWAN PROPER, IN THE BELIEF BY CHINA THAT THE US WILL NOT MIL RESPOND IN KIND ONCE IT IS CONVINCED THAT NOT-A-CONTINENT-OR-CONUS TAIWAN WILL BE MIL LOST TO THE PLA LONG BEFORE EFFEC US MIL RELIEF ARRIVES. IIUC, IOW STUDY > CHINA = believes that US POTUS = NatComAuthor will concede IN ORDER TO AVOID ESCALATION FROM CONVENTIONAL WAR TO [limited?full-scale?] REGIONAL, GLOBAL NUCLEAR WAR = MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION??? SUB-SUB-IOW, CHINA DOES NOT = PREFERS NOT TO USE NUKES IN A FIRST/PREEMPTIVE STRIKE AGZ TAIWAN [or ROK or JAPAN, etal] BECUZ IT WANTS TO USE SAME AS "WARM-WATER PORTS" = FORWARD PLA STAGING AREAS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-09 00:52 |