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2016-03-11 China-Japan-Koreas

N. Korea Fires Missiles, Liquidates South Assets

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North Korea looked to ratchet up already elevated tensions on the Korean peninsula still further Thursday, firing a pair of short-range missiles and announcing the liquidation of all remaining South Korean assets on its territory.

The moves were a direct response to unilateral sanctions announced by South Korea on Tuesday to punish the North for its January nuclear test and last month's long-range rocket launch.

Military tensions have been on the rise ever since the January test -- the fourth nuclear device North Korea has detonated in defiance of UN resolutions.

The UN Security Council responded with tough, new sanctions, which Pyongyang condemned as a "gangster-like" provocation orchestrated by the United States.

The North also reacted furiously to the start earlier this week of large-scale South Korea-US military drills, threatening pre-emptive nuclear strikes against both Seoul and the US mainland.

The asset seizure announced on Thursday referred to two now-shuttered joint projects, the Mount Kumgang tourism resort and the Kaesong joint industrial complex.

"We will completely liquidate all assets of South Korean firms and related institutions left behind in our region," the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea said in statement carried by the North's official KCNA news agency.

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#1 Do you suppose Pudgy is feeling some heat? He's either going to do something really stoopid or get wacked before he does.

Posted by Bobby 2016-03-11 07:39|| 2016-03-11 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 Successful missile test - both hit the ocean?

Posted by Raj 2016-03-11 10:35|| 2016-03-11 10:35|| Front Page Top

#3 Stealing what he can, while he can.

Posted by Jumbo Bucket6418 2016-03-11 10:36|| 2016-03-11 10:36|| Front Page Top

#4 As per CHINA DAILY, NOKOR repo has cancelled all commercial exchange public agreements wid SOKOR.

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"CHINA-ordered, NOKOR-launched/fired".

As FOREIGN POLICY, REAL CLEAR WORLD, + OTHER NET ARTICS indic or illustrated time back, TAIWAN'S final status vee Mainland China = Beijing, i.e. formal reunification wid Mainland China or in alternate the lack of same, is the key to what happens on the Korean Peninsula in regards to de facto or final INTER-KOREAN = NOKOR-SOKOR REUNIFICATION.

IS THE OBAMA-LED OR POST-PBAMA [Jan 2017] US WILLING TO ACCEPT A NOKOR/DPRK TAKEN OVER OR ANEXED BY MAINLAND CHINA, EVEN IT MEANS HARMING OUR RELATIONS + CREDIBILITY, ETC, WID SOKOR, JAPAN, + OTHER US REGIONAL ALLIES, FOR THE SAKE OF REGIONAL, WORLD PEACE + TRADE WID CHINA???

IFF THE NET IS ANY MEASURE, MANY MAINSTREAM OR ORDINARY AMERICANS SEEMINGLY WOULD N-O-T MIND OR CARE IFF BEIJING FORMALLY TOOK OVER NORTH KOREA, CORRECT???

KJU = "Pudgy" aside, the US must decide, + given OWG Co-Superpower CHINA's determination to unilaterally or "asymmetrically" settle its various terrigtorial sovereignty issues wid neighboring countries e.g. the South, East China Seas, THE US MUST DECIDE QUICKLY!

IFF NOKOR DOESN'T DEV OR ACQUIRE NUKES TO BREAK THE "STATUS QUO" IN NE ASIA, DOES THE US PREFER THAT THE ISIS/ISIL ATTACK CHINA [+ Russia, India]???

* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [The Hindu] CHINA BASE PROGRAMME: BEIJING WILLING TO BUILD [overseas = international Military] FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.

RELATED SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST > MORE CHINESE BASES ABROAD? BEIJING "WILLING" TO BUILD FACILITIES TO PROTECT OVERSEAS INTERESTS.

The OWG Co-Superpower USA can S-T-I-L-L have mucho Milbases in Europe + East Asia-Pacific, BUT THE US' OWG CO-SUPEPOWER SIBLING CHINA CAN'T, NOT EVEN IN EASTPAC???

Not very "Multi-Polar" or "Sharing" of the
US now is it???

* SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST [SCMP] > WE WILL NOT TOLERATE INSTABILITY [War andor a Nuke-armed NOKOR]: BEIJING'S WARNING TO WASHINGTON AND PYONGYANG.

* XINHUA > CHINA WARNS PHILIPPINES NOT TO CHALLENGE ITS SOVEREIGNTY ON SOUTH CHINA SEA. China on "high alert" monitoring vee possible Japan-led actions [Milactions?].

* XINHUA > [The Australian] DO NOT DISTURB SPRATLY ISLANDS - CHINA FM WANG YI, in warning to Australia.

* YAHOO NEWS > BEIJING [China] ACCUSES TOKYO [Japan, as per intervention/interference in Chinese affairs] OVER PATROL PLANES FOR PHILIPPINES.

* VICE NEWS > US SAYS BEIJING "WILL SOON HAVE SUBSTANTIVE [Offensive] MILITARY POWER" IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA.

RELATED REUTERS > CHINA ABLE TO PROJECT
"SUBSTANTIVE OFFENSIVE MILITARY POWER" IN SPRATLYS IN MONTHS.

* WORLD NEWS > Japan News" [CSIS CEO-President John H.] HAMRE: JAPAN TO BE ANCHOR IN ASIA WID US.

Sorry, Mr. Hamre, but that's N-O-T what Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama, the Globies, + "US-style", "US-par" OWG Co-Superpower CHINA wants to hear.

AGAIN, CHINA = WHY SHOULD ANGRY PUTIN-LED ANTI-US RUSSIA, + SEEMINGLY SIMILAR MILITANTLY ANTI-US IRAN, GET THEIR SPHERE(S) OF INFLUENCE VEE OBAMA + US AS OWG CO-SUPERPOWERS, BUT N-O-T [MilPol-Geopol "Quiet", Pro-US] CHINA???

Has China said they are "PRO-US"!?

YOOHOO, SWEET CAROLINE KENNEDY = POTUS HILLARY CLINTON?, ITS STILL YOUR TURN AT BAT!

Posted by Glavigum White5154 2016-03-11 22:14|| 2016-03-11 22:14|| Front Page Top

#5 OOOOPPPS, sorry, above post is mine.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2016-03-11 22:16|| 2016-03-11 22:16|| Front Page Top

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