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| Kaplan: When North Korea Falls |
| 2006-10-10 |
| The furor over Kim Jong IlÂ’s missile tests and nuclear brinksmanship obscures the real threat: the prospect of North KoreaÂ’s catastrophic collapse. How the regime ends could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades. The likely winner? China More |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Army Special Forces Colonel David Maxwell told me. On one day, a semi-starving population of 23 million people would be Kim Jong IlÂ’s responsibility; on the next, it would be the U.S. militaryÂ’s, which would have to work out an arrangement with the Chinese PeopleÂ’s Liberation Army (among others) about how to manage the crisis. -- The Chicoms can't feed their people now, why is it ours instead of the SorKs? |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-10-10 23:32 |
| #1 "Andrei Lankov, a professor of history at South KoreaÂ’s Kookmin University, in Seoul, says that under different circumstances Kim might have actually become the successful Hollywood film producer that regime propaganda claims he already is." Only a man who has never seen "Pulgasari" could write these words. |
| Posted by: Flea 2006-10-10 19:34 |