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2013-04-03 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-03 15:58|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Giving egocentric posers such as Cmdr. Zero a sense of losing of face may not end well....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-04-03 16:16|| 2013-04-03 16:16|| Front Page Top

#2 That is my fear that they feel they have gone to far to back down if the US doesn't.

Posted by DarthVader 2013-04-03 17:34|| 2013-04-03 17:34|| Front Page Top

#3 There is bluster and then there is insanity. Kimmie has pushed too far. If he does not start an incident or a war, he will be removed by Nork generals, in my semi-ignorant opinion.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-04-03 17:54|| 2013-04-03 17:54|| Front Page Top

#4 ...given the Chinese are about to make their 'historic' claims to the place to preclude some idiot pulling a trigger. I don't think the Chinese are prepared for an American grass roots boycott of anything 'Made in China'. Making and sticking lots of counterfeit stickers 'Made in -" is going to take time and stuff in transit becomes just write off.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-03 19:11|| 2013-04-03 19:11|| Front Page Top

#5 It is China that will order the Conventional andor Nuclear strikes that NOKOR will carry out.

Can vassal state North Korea survive overlord China's "post-US", future World #1 "Manifest Destiny" to be able to reunify wid the South???

As per FOXNEWS + CNN this Guam AM, North Korea = Jong-un has claimed any Nucstrike agz CONUS, etal. will not only be "merciless" but also "DIVERSIFIED" - IMO this latter term strongly infers utility of Advanced Nukes-WMDS aka NBC or CBRN(E) Weapons, to include covert transfer of advanced CHINESE WEAPONS to North Korea whose Military + Rocket Forces are actually controlled by a PLA Chinese General, NOT KIM JONG-UN + PYONGYANG BOYZ.

Again, by most accounts the DPRK lacks the LR milassets to hit Guam, Hawaii, + CONUS-NORAM.

Personally, I'm more concerned about a PLA-controlled, LR "DPRK" ICBM or Commando strike agz the CONUS Milbases/homeports of "sequestered" USDOD assets, E.G. SEVERAL "SEQUESTERED" USN NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIERS + USMC GATOR CARRIERS DOCKED AT NORFOLK NAVAL BASE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE I.E. UNTIL THE US NAVY-DOD FINDS THE $$$ TO FUEL + PUT THEM BACK IN NORMAL OPERATIONS.

IOW, "DPRK" = SSSSSHHHHH CHINESE PLA "LIMITED STRIKES" AGZ HIGH-VALUE CONUS USDOD BASES + LIKELY WASHINGTON, DC ITSELF.

Preemptively cutting off the US-Allies MLS of COMMUNICATIONS, SUPPLY/LOGISTICS, + REINFORCEMENT [Intervention], ETC. FROM BACK IN CONUS = THE SOURCE.

Widout China + PLA espec PLA 2nd Arty, DPRK per se = IRAN + RADICAL ISLAM = ONLY DO [Nuke-WMD?]COMMANDO + TERROR STRIKES AGZ CONUS???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-03 19:59|| 2013-04-03 19:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Joe - I see tramp ships with Panamanian or Liberian papers, owned by Iranian controlled front companies approached at sea by NKor subs that offload NKor and other commie nukes onto these suicide ships. The ships then steam close to US land or assets. The Jihadist manning them then seek their paradise via a deadman switch.
Since the US is watching the NKors their hope is the Iranian angle is missed. In this bluster period leading up to the attack... while we watch NKor Iran works like a busy bee and the Chinese suzerainty of Pakiwakiland prepares its path to paradise too. A Trinity cluster F. with (a nod to the Golden Bow) secret forth (required of a Trinity) China being properly disassociated.

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-03 22:23|| 2013-04-03 22:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Tramp steamer is a good way to deliver a nuke if the other side is slow-witted and not looking. But a nuke is big, it emits radiation under the best of circumstances, and there's always the chance of an intel leak that gives the game away before the ship is where it has to go. An ICBM with an 80% probability of launch has better odds of getting your nuke where you want it to go.

But if we're distracted and not on guard, a tramp steamer of obscured registration, etc, etc, etc could slip by I suppose. I only imagine our bright boys and girls in the Navy have thought of this.

Posted by Shaving Thaviling3155 2013-04-03 23:08|| 2013-04-03 23:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Criminy, that last one was me.

Posted by Steve White 2013-04-03 23:09|| 2013-04-03 23:09|| Front Page Top

#9 ICBM - with %80 odds... Not likely from NKor.
Even if the Chinese or Paks give them primo equipment they are likely to screw it up. Look at their launch success rate.
Actually the most likely delivered nuke is one built inside their embassy to the UN in NYNY.

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-03 23:20|| 2013-04-03 23:20|| Front Page Top

#10 Also, since forever the NKors have been running drugs out of their embassies all over the planet so they have an existing under the table criminal network that moves quantities of material all over the planet. Drugs, weapons, a-bombs its all covert freight and warehouses. They have the network now.

Posted by Water Modem 2013-04-03 23:25|| 2013-04-03 23:25|| Front Page Top

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