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2010-12-14 China-Japan-Koreas

S. Korea, US to form committee on N. Korea's nuclear threats

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Posted by Fred 2010-12-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top
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#1 "And that committee will conduct a study! And if that is not enough to bring the North to its knees, a strongly worded press release may be prepared!"

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-12-14 10:10|| 2010-12-14 10:10|| Front Page Top

#2 From Parkinson's Law, Chapter 4:

THE LIFE CYCLE of the committee is so basic to our knowledge of current affairs that it is surprising more attention has not been paid to the science of comitology. The first and most elementary principle of this science is that a committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. Only those who bear this principle in mind can make real headway in understanding the structure and history of modern government.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2010-12-14 18:51|| 2010-12-14 18:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Not looking good:

Russian Armed Forces on High Alert Over North Korea

http://www.nktoday.com/contents/view_content/7802/russian-armed-forces-on-high-alert-over-north-korea

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-12-14 18:58|| 2010-12-14 18:58|| Front Page Top

#4 IMO "NO TIME LIKE THE PRESENT", i.e. this new Committee should also study the possibility of a POTENT FUTURE RUSSIAN PRESENCE IN NOKOR, as Pyongyong's "hedge" agz both overlord CHINA + US-ROK-JAPAN, + under the guise of Russo-DPRK andor REGIONAL FTA???

NORTH KOREA = knows that RUSSIA is unlikely to send in its MIlfors unless NOKOR was about to collapse or fall into the hands of the US-WEST/NATO, + will also likley prefer to watch CHINA + USA destroy each other on the Korean Peninsula [Read, KEEP CHINA OUT OF RUSS FAR EAST = YAKUTIA, KAMCHATKA-SIBERIA, SAKHALIN ISLAND].
Both Tsarist + SOviet Russia historically feared a "STRONG CHINA" ON THEIR FLANKS, A FEAR WHICH HAS NOT ABATED UNDER VLADVEDEV. COLD WAR + POST-COLD WAR RUSSIA KNOWS CHINA WANTED SAKHALIN ISLAND BACK BOTH FOR "WARM-WATER" PORTS + TO CONTAIN JAPAN + FUTURE MILOPS AGZ RUSSIA, + HAD DEV MILPLANS TO TAKE SAKHALIN BY MIL FORCE.

Beijing on its part mistrusts TOKYO = JAPAN for HIDEYOSHI'S INVASION + TURN-OF-THE-20TH-CENTURY HUMILIATIONS OF MANCHU CHINA; + followed by RUSSIA for TSARIST INVASIONS + LOSS OF LARGE SWATHES OF CHIN-CLAIMED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY. Beijing mistrusts Japan more than Russia because Japan is a fellow Asian.

Again, RISING CHINA WANTS CHINESE-CONTROLLED OR DOMINATED "WARM WATER" INTERNATIONAL/OVERSEAS PORTS.

E.G. XINHUA > CHINA URGES JAPAN TO CONSIDER ITS ASIAN NEIGHBORS ON MILITARY MATTERS, espec as per
the [Maha-Rushian]"historical record".

and

* DER SPIEGEL > [NYT OpEd] NORTH KOREA'S MISSLE ABILITY SEEN TO FAR OUTPACE IRAN'S.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-12-14 19:35|| NA 2010-12-14 19:35|| Front Page Top

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