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2010-05-25 China-Japan-Koreas

Ban "Confident" of Security Council Response to Nork Attack

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Posted by Steve White 2010-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
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#1 ION FREEREPUBLIC > REPORT: NORTH KOREAN LEADER KIM PLACES MILITARY ON COMBAT FOOTING.

* TOPIX > UN CONDEMNS NORTH KOREAN ATTACK [on CHEONAN], + SOUTH KOREA SUSPENDS ALL TRADE WITH NORTH, + OBAMA: US IS READY TO FIGHT NORTH KOREA.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > CHINA'S HIGH SEAS AGGRESSION [ as much for PRO-CHINA GEOPOL = STATE POWER AS MUCH AS ECONOMICS].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 00:32|| 2010-05-25 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 For once, Ban has a grasp of the real situation and may actually do some good. Pity it took a nascent Korean War II to show the man's value.

Posted by lex 2010-05-25 00:55|| 2010-05-25 00:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Ah yes.... the sternly worded letter.

Posted by Lampedusa Omese6523 2010-05-25 06:38|| 2010-05-25 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Ban Ki-Moon says the Security Council may actually "take appropriate measures." Oooh, scary! I'm sure Kim is quivering in his bunny slippers.

Posted by Mike 2010-05-25 08:19|| 2010-05-25 08:19|| Front Page Top

#5 Quick, Johnson, print up the paper for the Secretary-General to sign on the Double Secret Probation.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-05-25 11:57|| 2010-05-25 11:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I also have faith in the UNSC - I believe that the members will look at this blatant act of war and decide to fund a study. A long study, with lots of sinecures for bureaucrats.

Posted by mojo 2010-05-25 12:45|| 2010-05-25 12:45|| Front Page Top

#7 And don't forget the conferences! Got to have lots and lots of conferences and luncheons in exotic locations where the delegates can fly in on their private jets and hold parties and dicussions over drinks. I hear Rio is lovely this time of year....

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-05-25 12:56|| 2010-05-25 12:56|| Front Page Top

#8 Well neither Russia nor China have ANY interest in NK invading South Korea.

For once this would seriously affect Japan. The Chinese certainly don't want Japan to go nuclear. And nobody wants to lose trade with South Korea.

Posted by European Conservative 2010-05-25 16:46|| 2010-05-25 16:46|| Front Page Top

#9 "The Chinese certainly don't want Japan to go nuclear."

Seems as good a reason as any why Japan should, EC.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-05-25 18:24|| 2010-05-25 18:24|| Front Page Top

#10 "Confident" enough to move back home, BanMan?

Posted by tu3031 2010-05-25 18:36|| 2010-05-25 18:36|| Front Page Top

#11 TOPIX > WHY IS NORTH KOREA MOBILIZING FOR WAR?

ARTIC indics or reminds us that

To wit,

* Up to 100,OOO SK Citizens-Residents of CLOSE-TO-THE-DMZ-ROK-CAPITAL-CITY SEOUL face death in the opening hours of any de facto NK-SK Mil Conlfict.

* As per above, approxi 1/2 of SOKOR-Based USFK Mil Personnel could become CASUALTIES.

* TECHNICALLY, KIMMIE = DPRK had since 2009 already unilaterally + formally abrogated or abandoned the 1950 Armistice Agreement.

* SCENARIO = ESTIMATES OF EARLY US-ROK "VICTORY" does NOT [typically]include or count ANY MIL INVOLVEMENT/INTERVENTION OF CHINA agz US-ROK/ALLIED MILFORS, NOR THE USE OF NUCWEAPS.

* RISK OF EXPANSION OF CONFLICT FROM KOREAS UNTO GLOBAL WW3.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 23:09|| 2010-05-25 23:09|| Front Page Top

#12 * SAME > DAILY YOMIURI > MORE CHINESE NAVAL AGGRESSION? MEGA-CHINA CHANGING JAPAN-CHINA RELATIONS. CHINA'S NAVY "SHOWING THE FLAG" OFF OKINOTORISHA [04/2010 PLAN Training Cruise Inspection Boat Party, + time later a formal NAVEX includ ASW Sub Drill].

ARTIC GRAPHIC MAP > depicts Okinotorisha as over 1/2-PLUS the distance towards the strategic direction of WESTPAC "SECOND ISLAND CHAIN" = espec GUAM-CNMI/MARIANAS.

AKA, "BREAKOUT" DEEP INTO WESTPAC + PLAN GETTIN' INTO JAPAN'S REAR.

Artic also notes CHIN'S DECISION TO ENFORCE
"CONTINENTAL SHELF" UNDERWATER SOVEREIGNTY.

* SAME > CHINA SAID TO HAD REBUFFED KIM JONG-IL'S AID PLAN, for North Korea.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-25 23:32|| 2010-05-25 23:32|| Front Page Top

#13 RIAN.RU > MEDVEDEV CALLS ON SEOUL NOT TO ALLOW ESCALATION ON KOREAN PENINSULA.

and

TOPIX > VARIOUS > HILLARY: US "WORKING HARD" TO PREVENT NEW KOREAN CONFLICT/ESCALATION, + [Koreas Crisis]CHINA MUST CONTROL KIM-JONG-IL.

Remember, 9-11 + GWOT = WAR AGZ THE "STATUS QUO", i.e. AGZ THE CURRENT ESTABLISHMENT + ORDER OF DOING THINGS. KIMMIE = DPRK must find a way to:

To wit,
* END DPRK STARVATION
* Keep FAMILY,PARTY, ARMY in Power
* Validate or "justify" NORKOM DPRK + PAN-KOREAN COMMUNISM-SOCIALISM-GOVTISM, + related - ISMS.
* MODERNIZE THE DPRK-specific NATIONAL ECON [read, NOT VIA COMMIE COMRADE CHINA].
* Keep the US-ROK [ + Japan, Euros] OUT OF DPRK, i.e. NO RETURN TO what occurred to CHINA + KOREAS in the 19th-early 20th Century ["Asia for Asians" anti-Foreigner/"White Devil" Boxer Rebellion, "Korean Annexation" by Japan, WW2]
* Keep CHINA per se out of the DPRK, i.e. NOT lose 2 of 3 ANCIENT KORYE "THREE KINGDOMS" = PAN-KOREAN COMMON HOMELANDS to Beijing due to FAILURES/DEFECTS OF KOREAN LEFTISM-COMMUNISM..
* Ditto RUSSIA + loss of Korean territory to same . RUSS = USSR = TSARIST RUSS + "THE OTHER/ICE-HAPPY NORTHERN, ALMOST-A-EURO, LAND--N-KIMCHEE GRABBY WHITE DEVIL".

Lastly, RISING ISLAMIST NUCLEAR THREAT [State + MilTerr] to DPRK + ALL OF ASIA IN GENERAL.

KIMMIE IS NO IDJUT > ISLAMIST/JIHADIST BOMB + INSURGENCIES = ISLAMISTS/MILTERRS BENT ON [Terror-led]WORLD CONQUEST.

IMO, KIMMIE seeing "GREAT POWER" CONFRONTATION as the only way for his NORKOMS to satisfy all of the above, prevent USSR-STYLE SELF-IMPLOSION WHILE PROTECTING "AS IS"-OR-BETTER DPRK SOVEREIGNTY + PERSONAL,DYNASTIC POWER.

INCREASED ECON AID FROM CHIN, INTERNATIONAL MAY NOT SUFFICE THIS TIME FOR THE DPRK.

ME > Personally, 2010-2012 I'm notsomuch worried about Kimmie attacking the ROK across the KOREAN DMZ as I am about Him = DPRK launching LR Nuke-WMDS agz USFK Milfors, USN CV/CVBGS + MEGS, JAPAN [Cities or US Milbases], or even agz GUAM.

IRAN + HEZBOLLAH.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-26 00:17|| 2010-05-26 00:17|| Front Page Top

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