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2006-09-10 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea 'determined to carry out underground test'

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Posted by john 2006-09-10 17:32|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Time to test the bunker busters.

Posted by Bright Pebbles in Blairistan 2006-09-10 17:40|| 2006-09-10 17:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Diplomatically, some time ago we probably approached China with an offer. Neither of us wants either Korea to go nuclear. We will not tolerate a nuclear North Korea, and neither, probably, will Japan.

Since you (China) want to keep your nuclear monopoly in the region, *and* you sure as hell don't want a nuclear Japan, *and* you don't want the US Air Force pounding the hell out of the Norks on your doorstep, we make you the following proposition.

If the Norks test a nuclear weapon, *you* punish them, to *our* satisfaction. This means decapitating their government and replacing it with one more satisfactory.

But wait! There's more!

If that government is more peaceful than this one, even conducive to reunification talks, you, China could make billions in the deal. A Korea unified with your help would be ever so grateful, it would also be a huge trading partner, and it would definitely be in *your* sphere of influence.

You would no longer be deluged by illegal immigrants, you would no longer have the US on your doorstep, and you would have a powerful ally that also doesn't care much for Japan.

By now, you've found your comfort level with a modestly-still-democratic Hong Kong; and in most ways, a unified Korea would be much the same.

And most of all, they do things the Chinese "way" in Korea, your acid test for compatibility.

So all you have to do is retire Kim, and you're in clover in all sorts of ways.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-10 18:39|| 2006-09-10 18:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Okeydokey, Kimmie!

Here's the deal - you test one below ground, we test one above ground - about 2 thousand feet over Pyongyang.

Deal?

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2006-09-10 19:55|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2006-09-10 19:55|| Front Page Top

#4 Nice try, 'moose, but the Mandarins would rather sh!t a porcupine backwards than ever see a unified democratic Korea on their doorstep. Big trading partner, the Chinese "way", no starving refugees, none of them mean spit compared to maintaining a continued counterweight to American military might in Northeast Asia. Kim effectively provides an overt nuclear threat that China can otherwise only tacitly maintain.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-10 20:08|| 2006-09-10 20:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, but if Korea unifies and is friendly with China, the US can finally leave. We have already wound it down with them, and having bases there seems to be pretty much zilch to us.

Remember the circumstances I gave, of China taking out Kim and installing a government who would bargain into reunification. The Skors would be so friggin grateful to China that their already good relations would get a lot better.

Of course China would keep a heavily fortified border for fear of democracy leaking in. But if the US suggested the idea in the first place, China would take a long, hard look at it. And remember what the alternative is, something about as pleasant as having that porcupine shoved up there, backwards, in the first place.

One damn unhappy porcupine, I might add.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-09-10 21:20|| 2006-09-10 21:20|| Front Page Top

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