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2011-07-02 China-Japan-Koreas

SKors braced for Nork 'provocation' as tension mounts

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Posted by Steve White 2011-07-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 What makes the current situation so fraught with danger -- some say the most perilous moment on the Korean peninsula for a generation -- is South Korea's hardline stance.

It's never the perpetrator's fault, is it? It's the victim's fault for arming. Armed victim doesn't roll of the tongue...it breaks the "narrative". Be a good little victim and suffer, Guardian readers will approve from afar.

Posted by gromky 2011-07-02 02:26|| 2011-07-02 02:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Too early. Kimmi head overheated in February. He likes to stay in sequence.

Posted by Spinegum Ghibelline7465 2011-07-02 16:52|| 2011-07-02 16:52|| Front Page Top

#3 I still say the South should stage massive barbeques on its side of the DMZ for weeks at a time. Wait until a time of year when the wind blows from the South and wafts the aroma into North Korea. People would be able to smell that food cooking for miles.

Posted by crosspatch 2011-07-02 18:10|| 2011-07-02 18:10|| Front Page Top

#4 VARIOUS > it appears the DPRK is once again threatening "ALL-OUT WAR/RETALIATION" agz the ROK for the alleged insults agz it by ROK frontline = DMZ units, besides also threatening to attack USFJ Milbases.

Again, the DPRK is in an [ideo] quandry - it doesn't want to be controlled or taken over by China + CPC, ala "North Korea/Korea for KOreans", but at the same time it wants to preserve Kim family + KORCOM, etal. ruling power + belief system while also NOT liberalizing its Govt-Econ-Society to any large or meaningful extent.

By most Pert accounts, the new SINO-DPRK FTAS is highly likely to increase China's influence + role in the DPRK, where China is already uniquely responsible for 80-85% of the DPRK's trade.

The proverbial "IMMOVABLE OBJECT VERSUS IRRESISTABLE FORCE".

Again, IRONY = As per "China threat" agz the DPRK + KORCOMS, its indir in SOUTH KOREA's LT interests to accept a "sufficiently/minimally" NUKE-ARMED DPRK [+ also Nukes for itself, besides other Options].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-02 21:59|| 2011-07-02 21:59|| Front Page Top

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