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2010-10-29 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by Steve White 2010-10-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ] Top

#1 Filler story, eh? Slow news day.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-29 00:14|| 2010-10-29 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Perhaps you could find and post something more interesting, gromky?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2010-10-29 00:16|| 2010-10-29 00:16|| Front Page Top

#3 ION WMF > US PRESSURE TO EXPAND GUAM BASE [US$12.0Bilyuhn Mil Buildup] ULTIMATELY FOR STRATEGIC OFFENSE, OR STRATEGIC DEFENSE AGZ CHINA?

* SAME > CHINA'S CONTINUING IMPROVEMENTS TO ITS LR NUCLEAR, CONVENTIONAL STRIKE CAPABILITIES HAS VOIDED THE ADVANTAGES OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" AS PER US BASES IN JAPAN, OKINAWA, SOUTH KOREA + TAIWAN. FEAR OF LOSS OF "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" TO PLA NUCLEAR DESTRUCTION HAS CAUSED THE US TO PULL BACK FROM JAPAN/OKINAWA + EXPAND ITS GUAM BASE. LT LOSS OF US TECHNOLOGICAL SUPERIORITY AGZ CHINA WILL INDUCE THE US TO RETREAT AGAIN FROM GUAM BASE TOWARDS HAWAII + "THIRD ISLAND CHAIN", CONUS.

* SAME > JAPAN: DAOYUS [Japan = Senkakus] IS A 30-YEAR-OLD, "MILITARY LIVE FIRE RANGE" UNDER THE PERMANENT OPERATING CONTROL OF THE USDOD AS PART OF THE US-JAPAN SECURITY ALLIANCE. USDOD [US Govt]. AS A THIRD-PARTY INTERVENOR ON SOVEREIGN CONTROL OF THE DAOYUS.

IOW, IIUC TOKKYU/TOKYO is trying hard NOT to say that the SENKAKUS/DAOYUS are akin TO CUBA'S GITMO" IN JAPAN, i.e. is a DE FACTO "PERMANENT"?
US SOVEREIGN ENCLAVE ON OTHERWISE INDEPENDENT FOREIGN SOIL. Japan has no real say on anything related to the Daoyus under Treaty widout US = USDOD consent???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 01:55|| 2010-10-29 01:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I was referring to the media's choice of a story.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-29 02:26|| 2010-10-29 02:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Kim dynasty dynamics are interesting to some, just as Kremlin-watching used to be ...

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-29 07:52|| 2010-10-29 07:52|| Front Page Top

#6 I find it interesting, as I think NK is as dangerous, if not more so, than Iran. They have the tech know-how and readily supplied it to who-knows-who. And few seem to pay attention to the Asian threat to the US, with container ships continually entering not just ports, but transported inland. A major Korean importer of petty junk such as the prizes distributed through Mickey D's, is in debt to Harrah's to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars; he could import contraband for $$$$$, although it is beyond me why the casinos extended him such high dollar credit.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-10-29 11:08|| 2010-10-29 11:08|| Front Page Top

#7
Case in point, Breaking news: Several UPS planes are in quarantine, including a report that one is suspected of having radioactive cargo.
Fox:
Authorities are investigating a suspicious package found on a UPS plane that arrived at Philadelphia (also Newark) International Airport Friday.

A crew member arriving on a UPS flight from Paris notified authorities of a suspicious package on board describing a potential radiological component, a local CBS affiliate reported.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-10-29 11:36|| 2010-10-29 11:36|| Front Page Top

#8 Probably making a bunch of hubub to try to fool people into thinking they are doing their job.

Posted by gorb 2010-10-29 13:40|| 2010-10-29 13:40|| Front Page Top

#9 You mean somebody who's not actually IN North Korea cares which of Kimmy's retarded-looking offspring is offered up for the ritual slaughter?

Posted by mojo 2010-10-29 14:36|| 2010-10-29 14:36|| Front Page Top

#10 PRAVDA > NORTH KOREAN TROOPS FIRE AT SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY UNIT [along DMZ near Hwacheon, ROK]. ROK's fired back,

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 19:14|| NA 2010-10-29 19:14|| Front Page Top

#11 No casualties repor along the inter-Korean DMZ.

* OTOH, NEWS KERALA > CHINA REFUSES TO RESUME NEGOTIATIONS WID JAPAN OVER SENKAKUS ISLANDS DISPUTE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 22:06|| NA 2010-10-29 22:06|| Front Page Top

#12 WAFF > JAPAN ACHIEVES THIRD [successful] BALLISTIC MISSLE INTERCEPT USING RAYTHEON'S
STANDARD MISSLE-III [RSM/SM-3's].

Again , CHINA = BEIJING, CPC is linking its self-perceived "Manifest Destiny" as a US-STYLE OR POST-US GLOBAL SUPERPOWER ON ITS ABILITY, SUCCESS IN OVERCOMING THE GEOGRAPHIC + GEOPOL OBSTRUCTIONS, ETC. OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" + GAIN UNILATER "GREAT POWER" DEEP/FAR ACCESS INTO THE PACIFIC + INDIAN OCEANS. Failure to do means that RISING CHINA will remain a MAJOR REGIONAL POWER [land], BUT NOT A GLOBAL ONE [Land-Air-Sea-Space], LET ALONE DE FACTO LT SUPERIORTY OVER THE US.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-29 22:25|| 2010-10-29 22:25|| Front Page Top

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