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2013-04-14 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2013-04-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Out of fuel?

Posted by Skidmark 2013-04-14 04:46|| 2013-04-14 04:46|| Front Page Top

#2 Watch the feet, not the hands.

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-14 08:52|| 2013-04-14 08:52|| Front Page Top

#3 So, they have 'em placed where they want 'em....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-14 20:17|| 2013-04-14 20:17|| Front Page Top

#4 Today is NOKOR's hallowed "Day of the Sun" - everyone is waiting to see iff NOKOR will launch one or more of its "MUSUDANS" MBMS in geopol-bellicose "celebration"???

In any case, the larger issue is China's desire for unchallenged or unobstructed, "sole" strategic access into WESTPAC + SOPAC via the "First Island Chain". CHINA SEES US MILBASES CLOSE TO CHINA'S SHORES, WHILE SEEING NO CHINESE OR PLA MILBASES CLOSE TO AMERICA'S SHORES.

Notice that the latest NOKOR Crisis has NOT prevented China from violating Japan's 12-mile territorial limit around the disputed Senkakus [China = Diaoyu Islands].

ALSO, ITS CHINA THATS BEEN MOBILIZING MIL ASSETS/FORCES, ACROSS FROM TAIWAN + VIETNAM + NOW SSSSHHHH....CCCCC NORTH KOREA, NOT NORTH KOREA PER SE.

Unless China gets strategic = key or important territorial concessions, or changes its post/anti-US "Manifest Destiny", I DON'T SEE ANY END TO PUDGY'S BRINKMANSHIP. Iff anything, there will be MORE, + WORSE.

IMO this "Musudan" Crisis ala KJU/Pudgy in 2013 is only for starters.

US-VS-CHINESE HEGEMONY IN THE PACIFIC OR ASIA-PACIFIC - since its National, Global Econ is still growing + modernizing, pragmatically the best "NOKOR" = CHINA can hope for is US rollback = surrender? towards 1/2 of the Pacific [East Asia to CENTPAC]???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-14 20:30|| 2013-04-14 20:30|| Front Page Top

#5 It has been suggested that the North Koreans would not initiate a war that would virtually guarantee a response that destroys their nuclear development capabilities. An alternative view is that the new Kim dynasty is apparently willing to accept self-destruction as a way to obtain even more generous peace terms. Its a form of calculus not appropriate to the Western mind, but our years in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos should have taught us this is at least possible. This was Ho Chi Minhs theory and it worked.

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-14 20:31|| 2013-04-14 20:31|| Front Page Top

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