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| It’s Time For The US And China To Act On North Korea |
| 2017-03-04 |
| [SCMP] Since the US presidential campaign, Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s fiery ...a single two-syllable word carrying connotations of both incoherence and viciousness. A fiery delivery implies an audience of rubes and yokels, preferably forming up into a mob... and antagonistic attacks on China regarding issues ranging from currency and trade to Taiwan and the South China Sea have prompted much speculation that the world’s two largest economies are embarking on a dangerous path of confrontation. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 ...The problem now is that the What-Comes-Next(TM) could be worse than what we have now. If we had worked with the Chinese even a decade ago on getting rid of the Kims and helping to set up a unified, non-nuclear and neutral Republic of Korea, it still could have been done. Expensive and difficult but possible. Now, however, North Korea is so far gone that it would take multi-trillion-dollar commitments from us and the PRC, Japan, and the UN as a whole (I know, I know) and decades of work to accomplish - and it might still require writing off as hopeless the entire current population of the DPRK. (Hopeless in the sense that they will never be able to be assimilated, that is) And by now, you know the Kims have set up a stay-behind force to wreck whatever comes after them, regardless of who's involved. And if they do, it's a cinch they have some very, very bad toys to make their point with. Compared to them, ISIS would indeed be the JV. At this point, quite honestly, I don't know what we can do. It's possible that if the Chinese are as fiendishly clever as we think then they've made the necessary plans and all they need do is make a phone call. But I firmly believe that no matter how 'peaceful' the breakdown, we will be in for decades of terrifyingly expensive effort and vicious fighting. Something must be done - but we're at a point where there are no longer any 'good' options. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2017-03-04 07:52 |