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2010-05-28 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by 3dc 2010-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 CHINESE MIL FORUM > [Cheonan] ANALYSTS QUESTION KOREA TORPEDO SINKING | DOUBTS ARE SURFACING/RISNG ABOUT POSSIBLE US TRICKERY IN NK WARSHIP SINKING. ROK Medias question how a dubiously/subjectively-maintained Sub from a repor "FIFTH-RATE" MIL-NAVAL POWER = DPRK? may had succesfully penetrated the defensive screen of MODERN HI-TECH US-ROK WARSHIPS, Includ but not limited to CHEONAN [US-ROK NAVEX] + those vessels AEGIS-EQUIPPED OR SIMIL???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-28 02:15|| 2010-05-28 02:15|| Front Page Top

#2 ION WMF > JAPAN: US MILITARY UNILATERAL OR JOINT RESPONSE IN CASE OF SINO-JAPAN MIL CONFLICT OER THE DAOYU ISLANDS [Japan = SENKAKU Islands] IS ALLOWED BY THE US-JAPAN SECURITY TREATY.

* SAME > CHINA + TAIWAN FUROR OVER ASSIGNMENT OF TAIWAN AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION MISSION, AIR-SEA ZONE TO JAPAN'S SDF AIR FORCE + YONAGUNI ISLAND MIL GARRISON. ALONG WID TAIWAN'S US-SUPPLIED AIR FORCE, JAPANESE FIGHTER PLANES CAN NOW INVESTIGATE PLAAF AIRCRAFT FLYING OER SOVEREIGN [Taiwan]AIRSPACE.

Read, TAIWAN = MAINLAND CHINESE SOVEREIGN AIRSPACE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-28 02:23|| 2010-05-28 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 If true, that is an overt act of war.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-05-28 08:09|| 2010-05-28 08:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Torpedoing a ship is an overt act of war. Cassus belli has already been established.

Posted by gromky 2010-05-28 08:26|| 2010-05-28 08:26|| Front Page Top

#5 What the hell is the point of a naval blockade on a country with a long friendly border with their patron-state?

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-05-28 10:49|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-05-28 10:49|| Front Page Top

#6 North Korea sends drugs, weapons, and who knows what else, out by ship. If it has to go through China, they (China) lose plausible deniability when a shipment come to light.
Anyway, a full court press is called for, if we don't have the guts to smack the bastards down. Suffocate them.

Posted by Grunter 2010-05-28 11:56|| 2010-05-28 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 What the hell is the point of a naval blockade on a country with a long friendly border with their patron-state?

Besides, it's a good way to piss them off and call the rat ba$tards out.

Posted by gorb 2010-05-28 12:20|| 2010-05-28 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 May prevent a Q-ship with a bomb from getting out.

Posted by swksvolFF 2010-05-28 20:30|| 2010-05-28 20:30|| Front Page Top

#9 Thanks, Kansas. Don't mind if I do.

Posted by Grunter 2010-05-28 21:40|| 2010-05-28 21:40|| Front Page Top

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