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2010-08-24 China-Japan-Koreas

The Trouble with Kim Jong-il's Succession

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Posted by Fred 2010-08-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA: NORTH HAS DEPLOYED TROOPS [ROK detection of "massive movement/deployment" of DPRK troops to near Pyongyang].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-24 03:10|| 2010-08-24 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 "died in a mysterious car accident" Someone killed him, because there are not enough cars around to have an accident.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-08-24 08:54|| 2010-08-24 08:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The big problem with succession is that first prize is North Korea.

Posted by SteveS 2010-08-24 11:05|| 2010-08-24 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 DRUDGEREPORT AM > SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY DRILL ENVISIONS "OCCUPYING NORTH" ["Stabilization" of imploded or mil defeated DPRK to be followed by "Unification" wid ROK].

* YONHAP NEWS > SOUTH KOREA SEEKS UNIFICATION WID NORTH KOREA IN PEACEFUL, GRADUAL WAY.

Very nice, but TWO PROBS...
* CHINA per se wants to make it clear to its Asian neighbors that it, NOT THE USA, is the MILPOL BIG BOSS = EL HEFE' of the EAST + SOUTH CHINA SEAS, i.e. YELLOW SEA, WEST SEA, + SEA/GULF OF VIETNAM [Hainan] + MALACCAS.
* Iff KIMMIE + REGIME are beginning to lose thier [Dynastic] grip on formal Pol, Ideo Power, WILL NOKOR DO SOMETHING MIL DESPERATE, ee A NEW, MORE EXPLOSIVE MIL INCIDENT(S) INDUC A "GREAT POWER" MIL CONFRONTATION, to include lockstep wid Islamist Iran???

Iff the News Repors are accurate, its more evidencia that LT Food, Econ-Troubled NOKOR may unilater self-implode before NUKE-HAPPY IRAN does 2010-2012/2015.

THIRD PROB > WMF + CHINA MIL BLOGS = The USDOD is preparing Optional Plans-Schemas to send US TROOPS INTO NORTH KOREA in order to help stabilize the country, as part of a possib UN OR INTERNATIONAL COALITION WHICH MAY, OR MAY NOT BE, LED BY CHINA???

Keep your fingers crossed.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-08-24 19:49|| 2010-08-24 19:49|| Front Page Top

#5 Oh! Oh!

Another O.

Posted by Skunky Glins**** 2010-08-24 22:41|| 2010-08-24 22:41|| Front Page Top

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