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2007-01-02 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by ed 2007-01-02 12:31|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 ...Actually, they have one option left, and it's a scary one: selling the nukes.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-01-02 13:17|| 2007-01-02 13:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Yup, sell them or use them, because they've not been benefitting Kimmie much just sitting there.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2007-01-02 14:22|| 2007-01-02 14:22|| Front Page Top

#3 What will be the effect of that much gold on the market? Will prices be depressed?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-01-02 14:44|| 2007-01-02 14:44|| Front Page Top

#4 What will be the effect of that much gold on the market? Will prices be depressed?

$25B? I am no economist, but it seems to me that it would barely even be noticed by the world economy. It seems the NorK economy would because they seem to go gaga over every $1M!

Posted by gorb 2007-01-02 15:45|| 2007-01-02 15:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Wait a second! Who got the set of balls for xmas? Condi? Masterstroke.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-01-02 16:32|| 2007-01-02 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I wonder if this is an indicator that the nukes don't work like they're supposed to.

Posted by Mike 2007-01-02 18:03|| 2007-01-02 18:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Choreographed outrage of the "left" in 5... 4... 3...

Posted by Excalibur 2007-01-02 18:23|| 2007-01-02 18:23|| Front Page Top

#8 Who got the set of balls for xmas? Condi?

I'm getting so pessimistic about NorK and Iraq that the first thought that came into my mind is that it didn't take any balls to do this. Too many places to distribute blame if it doesn't work perfectly according to any detractors, and even the detractors don't really care about moves like this. Looks like we do have some assets we can pull from them after all!

Anyway, having thought about the nuke thing, I don't know if NorK is going to be able to sell its nukes for anything like what they seem to think that they're "worth". If a NorK NooK shows up on the black market, it's going to mean a boatload of trouble for the NorKs. And they're going to need more than just cash to make it worth it at that point. They are going to need billions of dollars or major ongoing support from whatever nation or group bought it. The paper trail would be day-glo orange and a mile wide, and not even terrorists are that dumb. It just seems to me it would be tough to do.

The NorKs may sell them or give them away out of desperation, but it would be admitting that they only had minutes left to live and wanted to take a piece of the US down with them.

Buuuuut Kimmie is almost as loony as Murtha or Sheehan, so you never can tell for sure . . . .

Posted by gorb 2007-01-02 19:09|| 2007-01-02 19:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Showdown/Rumble coming down for IRAN + NORTH KOREA. Lest we fergit TAIWAN > LUCIANNE.com > Taiwan Prez CHEN = reaffirms that Taiwan is NOT PART OF CHINA + IS A SOVEREIGN NATION; and ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA, i.e. historical Muslim efforts /beliefs to avenge ANY AND ALL DEFEATS/SETBACKS, ESPEC MILITARY, OF ISLAM AS IMPOSED BY NON-MUSLIMS = BLAMED ON NON-MUSLIMS. The only good news is that everyone knows CHINA's need of "living space" for its 1.4Bilyuuhn people and growing > means must inevitably, predomin, come up against and mil challenge RUSSIA, notsomuch the smaller nations of Asia-Pacific, and RUSSIA KNOWS IT. SPACEWAR > RUSSIA > Immigration and other issues affecting the Russian Far East-Siberia AFFECTS RUSSIA'S NATIONAL SECURITY [also read, NATIONAL INTEGRITY/COHESION].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2007-01-02 21:19|| 2007-01-02 21:19|| Front Page Top

#10 China just needs to wait a generation & the Russian population will drop so low their land will be available for anyone who walks in.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-02 23:02|| 2007-01-02 23:02|| Front Page Top

#11 China just needs to wait a generation & the Russian population will drop so low their land will be available for anyone who walks in.

I believe that was one of the strategic concepts of Operation Barbarossa.

Posted by badanov 2007-01-02 23:14|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-01-02 23:14|| Front Page Top

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