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2003-04-27 International

Suspect nuclear-related shipment to NKorea intercepted

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-04-27 11:48 am|| || Front Page|| [11138 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I am sure that this is the tip of the iceberg. I know that it is an act of war, but we should be thinking about a quarantine of shipping into North Korea. At least we should be looking at cargos going in before they pass into NK waters. If we can get the evidence, we should be making public Chinese complicity, Chinese front companies to show a pattern of behavior of the Chinese govt enabling the NKors.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-27 14:06:49|| 2003-04-27 14:06:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Paul, the Chinese have been enablers of NK since, oh, the late 50's? They need to understand that the cost will outweigh any benefits they get from tweaking our nose. Say, a nuke enabled Japan and Taiwan? That would keep them up at night

Posted by Frank G 2003-04-27 14:25:16|| 2003-04-27 14:25:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeah, Frank, the problem with a blockade is that it will be like a bubble in a linoleum floor and the path for the goods will shift through mainland China overland to Korea. A nuke-enabled Japan and Taiwan? The threat of it may wake them up, but the economics of shaking up China I would like to try first. We are trying to get rid of nukes, not get any more. China is financing their military upgrade with cheap labor brought in with foreign exchange. But, the path to the answer to dealing with NK leads right to China.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-27 16:22:41|| 2003-04-27 16:22:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Frank--I meant to say military upgrade bought with foreign exchange derived from cheap labor. Hey, I am working today and it is 60F in Alaska. Criminal to be inside today.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-04-27 16:26:05|| 2003-04-27 16:26:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Aluminum tubes, hmmm. Aren't those supposed to be for making rockets go farther. I mean, Saddam wouldn't lie about that, blixie told us so.

Posted by Anonymous 2003-04-27 18:30:21|| 2003-04-27 18:30:21|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if China is playing a game where they will essentially "trade" North Korea for Taiwan. They stop propping up the NKors, causing them to implode and fall into the sphere of South Korea and by proxy the US. To reciprocate, the US stops backing Taiwan, and stands back while China "reclaims" it to their "sphere". A win-win for most?

z

Posted by ziphius 2003-04-27 18:31:35|| 2003-04-27 18:31:35|| Front Page Top

#7 Z -- not if you're Tawainese. And definitely not for the US if it looks like we handed them over.

Posted by Baba Yaga 2003-04-27 19:37:44|| 2003-04-27 19:37:44|| Front Page Top

#8 Stabbing the Tiwanese won't happen under a Republican President. There are two things Republicans my age have never forgiven Tricky Dick for: Allowing Red China to have the Chinese seat in the UN, and getting caught covering up for "Watergate".

If there were a femocrat (sic) in the White House,
it wouldn't surprise me if ziphius's scenario were to be negogotiated, especially some one like Dean or Kerry.

Posted by VNVet 2003-04-27 20:14:19|| 2003-04-27 20:14:19|| Front Page Top

#9 Can't say I'm too happy that it would be considered OK to sell these tubes to the Chinese, never mind transshipping them to NK.

Posted by tbn 2003-04-28 00:37:25|| 2003-04-28 00:37:25|| Front Page Top

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