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China-Japan-Koreas
N.Korea Imposes Martial Law Ahead of Nuclear Test
2013-02-01
(RIA Novosti) - North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has issued a secret order to put the country under martial law in preparation for a third nuclear test in its history, a South Korean newspaper reported on Thursday.
How could that possibly differ from everyday North Korean totalitarian rule?
Kim Jong-un convened an emergency meeting with top defense and security officials last Saturday and supposedly said: "The country will be under martial law starting from midnight on January 29, and all the frontline and central units should be ready for a war," Korean Joongang Daily reported, citing an unidentified source.

The paper also speculated that the new nuclear test could be held either on February 16, the birthday of former leader Kim Jong-il, or February 25, the inauguration day of South Korean President-elect Park Geun-hye.

North Korea vowed on January 23 to strengthen its military capabilities and step up its controversial nuclear program shortly after the UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on the country over the December rocket launch.

Pyongyang also pledged to end any efforts at denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula and to withdraw from six-party talks.

Satellite images have shown that the reclusive communist regime has been digging a new underground tunnel at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site in the country's northeast, where it conducted two previous nuclear tests, first in 2006 and then in 2009.
Posted by:Fred

#1  RELATED DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [London Daily Telegraph = AFP, etc.] NORTH KOREA UNDER MARTIAL LAW: "BE READY FOR WAR".

SINK THE "GEORGIE", SINK THE "GEORGIE", i.e. USN CVN USS GEORGE WASHINGTON???

What is it wid the DPRK + that US CVN???

Its the Cherry/Apple Tree that First POTUS GW in legend chopped down as a kid, isn't it???

and

* SAME > [CNN] US: NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST "SOON" [can take place anytime].

versus

* SAME > XI: GET USED TO AN ASSERTIVE CHINA, YOU HAVE NO CHOICE! | [Global Times] XI'S MESSAGE SHOWS CONSISTENT DIPLOMACY.

RELATED SAME > DEFINITIVE SHIFT IN CHINA'S FOREIGN POLICY.

ARTICS are consistent wid my argument that, as per histoire', China will keep up its calls for mutual diplomacy + negotiation, etc. UNTIL THE DAY + HOUR THE PLA SUDDENLY SHOCKINGLY MYSTERIOUSLY OPENS FIRE AND ATTEMPTS TO DESTROY ANYTHING + ANYONE JAPANESE + JAPANESE SDF, COAST GUARD ETC. IN + NEAR THE CHINA-CLAIMED SENKAKUS.

Again, China wants TAIWAN - it desires the Senkakus + Okinawa to guard the approaches to, from WESTPAC vee its future PLA Milbases on Taiwan. WIDOUT CONTROL OR SOVEREIGNTY OVER TAIWAN, IN CHINA'S MIND THERE IS NO "POST-US", FUTURE "WORLD NO.1", "MANIFEST DESTINY", AT LEAST FOR MOST OR ALL OF THIS 21ST CENTURY [2050-2100]. 'Tis anathema = absolutely positively categorically undeniably ... ... @etc. unacceptable to China.

D *** NG IT, IT DOES N-O-T COMPUTE!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2013-02-01 01:32  

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