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| China-Japan-Koreas |
| Seoul offers Kim Jong-un grand bargain to link North and South Korean economies with China |
| 2018-05-09 |
| [South China Morning Post] Moon Jae-in handed his North Korean counterpart a blueprint for economic integration at last month’s historic Panmunjom summit. President Moon Jae-in gave the North’s leader Kim Jong-un a USB drive containing a "New Economic Map of the Korean Peninsula" at the fortified border village of Panmunjom on April 27. The initiative included three economic belts ‐ one connecting the west coast of the peninsula to China, making the region a centre of logistics; one connecting the east coast to Russia for energy cooperation and one on the current border to promote tourism. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #9 Herb's hysterical - offer tissues |
| Posted by: Frank G 2018-05-09 21:19 |
| #8 You know we just opened a new one in Niger? Fucking Niger? What sort of fucking business do we have there? Both Boko Haram and the greater Sahara branch of ISIS play in Niger nowadays, Herb, which positions them nicely to send trained people north into Europe. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-09 19:52 |
| #7 The One Belt thing is a canard. Transport by sea (which America dominates) is 14 times cheaper than transport by land. China isn't doing OBOR because they're going to DOM-UH-NATE, they're doing it because they have no damn choice. And if they get a better position, who cares? What, is America's job to put its armies in every territory on the map? This isn't a game of Risk by Parker Brothers. Is it our job to be the “exceptional nation,” unlike all others, with a supreme duty to go round the world and impose those ideas and that vision on other, unenlightened or recalcitrant nations? Even when they don't want it? WTF people. Korea has a right to decide its own destiny. With the Nork threat gone, US troops can finally be withdrawn. It's about time we started withdrawing instead of setting up new bases. You know we just opened a new one in Niger? Fucking Niger? What sort of fucking business do we have there? None! |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-05-09 15:56 |
| #6 We've supported them militarily and economically for 70 years. If they want to join the emerging Chinese Communist hegemony, so be it. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-09 13:36 |
| #5 SKOR's PM is a moron. What happened to them the last time they went into a joint business venture with the Norks? |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-05-09 13:31 |
| #4 Which perhaps plays into China's push to dominate Eurasian trade with their One Belt initiative. Hmmmm ..... |
| Posted by: Snoluting Phomoth8901 2018-05-09 12:06 |
| #3 South Korea has an empty train station on the border with a map showing it connected all the way to Europe. All that it needs is to run across North Korea. Exciting times ahead. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-05-09 11:34 |
| #2 Yep, nothing to do with $$$$, oh no. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2018-05-09 11:04 |
| #1 Now we know why China is suddenly clamping down on Kimmie boy. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2018-05-09 10:39 |