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2013-04-30 China-Japan-Koreas

N.Korea Demolishes Border Villages to Stem Defections

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Posted by Steve White 2013-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 As said before, the DPRK may no longer have the ability to wait many years + decades for de facto reunification wid the ROK - IT NEEDS REUNIFICATION ASAP LEST CHINA TAKE IT OVER JUST BY SIMPLE NON-WAR ECONOMIC ATTRITION = ECON-LED STATE COLLAPSE. WHAT MORE CHINESE TAKEOVER DUE TO WAR-LED COLLAPSE?

However, the DPRK is caught in the parallel larger, more dangerous issue of China's demand for strategic MilPol access for the PLA in various Asian mainland + maritime regions.

CAN NORTH KOREA + INTER-KOREAN REUNIFICATION SURVIVE CHINA'S "MANIFEST DESTINY"?

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-30 00:17|| 2013-04-30 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmm, looks like a lot of farmland along the Yalu border. Are they sending the peasantry back under guard during the day to work the fields, or are they abandoning the farmland, too?

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-04-30 09:28|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-04-30 09:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh, wait, Tuman River, not Yalu. Also plenty of farmland, but the other side of the watershed. Apparently the Yalu will drown your ass if you try to cross it in the dead of night?

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-04-30 09:32|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-04-30 09:32|| Front Page Top

#4 "The regime believes that stemming defections is an effective method of staying in power," the government source said.

While enslaving and starving the rest? Seems pretty dumb to me. Power requires living people over whom power is wielded. Not gonna be many of those left at this rate.

Posted by RandomJD 2013-04-30 15:58|| 2013-04-30 15:58|| Front Page Top

#5 FWIW, I thought they already had banned any settlements within about 25 km of the border anyways...

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2013-04-30 19:21|| 2013-04-30 19:21|| Front Page Top

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