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2013-04-14 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Bobby 2013-04-14 08:27|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 The double "n" in the title was sticky fingers, but maybe it's also a pun?

Posted by Bobby 2013-04-14 08:34|| 2013-04-14 08:34|| Front Page Top

#2 his stoic father

WTF? Can we get a ruling here please?

Posted by Shipman 2013-04-14 08:45|| 2013-04-14 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 unfortunately - if this de-nuclearization policy goes forward then Pudgy's reckless behavior will be rewarded in a big way. His fight to obtain full control of the N. Korean military will be won, and he will have learned a major lesson - if you don't get what you want ... act even more reckless.

I'm in favor of not seeing Seoul or Pyongyang get nuked ... but if the US removes nukes from the peninsula then it's also likely that future non-nuclear conflicts will be a definite reality.

Posted by Raider 2013-04-14 10:59|| 2013-04-14 10:59|| Front Page Top

#4 he's stoic now

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-14 11:05|| 2013-04-14 11:05|| Front Page Top

#5 "but if the US removes nukes from the peninsula then it's also likely that future non-nuclear conflicts will be a definite reality."

The United States withdrew the last nuclear weapons from South Korea in December 1991.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2013-04-14 12:04|| 2013-04-14 12:04|| Front Page Top

#6 More to the point, perhaps -- what happens when you mix an inferiority complex with a narcissistic complex?

Posted by Bobby 2013-04-14 12:05|| 2013-04-14 12:05|| Front Page Top

#7 Bobby did you really set up such an obvious shot? 8^)

Posted by AlanC 2013-04-14 12:30|| 2013-04-14 12:30|| Front Page Top

#8 "what happens when you mix an inferiority complex with a narcissistic complex?"

D.C., Bobby. :-(

Posted by Barbara 2013-04-14 12:47|| 2013-04-14 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 Elmeret .. the USA may have withdrawn nukes from S. Korean soil. But that doesn't mean they were dropped from the defense strategy. They are (presumably) still on US aircraft carriers. And the USA usually has at least one carrier within comfortable sailing distance of "hot spots" in Asia. So the implied threat is still there.

But you raise a good question. If the USA says that de-nuclearization is the new (intended) policy - how exactly does that get implemented? How would N. Korea ever know whether the US has nukes stationed in Guam, or on an aircraft carrier - and therefore how they would be deployed? Basically, the US strategy can never be verified by the N. Koreans - so why should they go for "de-nuclearization"?

Posted by Raider 2013-04-14 15:09|| 2013-04-14 15:09|| Front Page Top

#10 So when KJU took the brinksmanship course, did he pass, fail, drop out, or skipped classes? Or did he do it by correspondence?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-04-14 18:28|| 2013-04-14 18:28|| Front Page Top

#11 he was "present", which is a lot like someone else we know...

Posted by Frank G 2013-04-14 18:49|| 2013-04-14 18:49|| Front Page Top

#12 The irony here is that for the two Koreas to reunify, both NOKOR + SOKOR may need to dev Nukes.

However, the above must be weighed agz the notion that most Perts believe China will never accept a non-Commie, non-Chinese-dominated, pro-Western or pro-Democratic unified Koreas on the Peninsula - MORESO WID FORMAL SINO-TAIWAN REUNIFICATION STALLED INDEFINITELY.

In "Mahanist" China's mind, TAIWAN = China's equivalent of "Mahanist" America's "PEARL HARBOR/HAWAII/HAWIIAN ISLANDS' for entry into the Pacific during the late 19th-early 20th Century. China has times said that widout soveriegnty or control of Taiwan, there is NO China or Chinese "Manifest Destiny" as "post-US", future "World #1" in place of the USoA.

Both Taiwan + the PHIL are US Allies, espec wid the US as existential "guarantor" for democratic Taiwan as China is for Commie NOKOR, hence "Pudgy" = KJU/NOKOR = China? aims its "MUSUDAN(S)" at China's historical rival Japan.

Something has to change = "give" as per starving North Korea, + something has to also change vee China's anti-US "Manifest Destiny".

NORTH KOREA PER SE IS FACING DE FACTO CHINESE TAKEOVER NO MATTER THE SCENARIO, IMO HENCE ITS WILLINGNESS TO THREATEN TO ATTACK EVERYONE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-14 20:12|| 2013-04-14 20:12|| Front Page Top

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