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2011-01-31 China-Japan-Koreas
No Power Twenty Days into the New Year for North Koreans
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Posted by Steve White 2011-01-31 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ]  Top

#1 Factories and economic production has been killed off and all power redirected to the railways, the official added. Most factories and businesses having ceased production, the people have gone to farming villages to help plow and labor in the fields.

MORONS, if the factories don't produce, then there's nothing for the Railroads to Haul.
Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-01-31 00:46||   2011-01-31 00:46|| Front Page Top

#2 In the meantime, North Korea has begun making large shipments of coal to China. It looks to me like they are selling their coal instead of burning it themselves.

They keep this up and there will be nobody left to mine it.
Posted by crosspatch 2011-01-31 05:18||   2011-01-31 05:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Reference for my above comment about coal to China:

http://www.nkeconwatch.com/2011/01/25/china-ships-coal-from-north-korean-port-for-first-time/
Posted by crosspatch 2011-01-31 05:20||   2011-01-31 05:20|| Front Page Top

#4 MORONS, if the factories don't produce, then there's nothing for the Railroads to Haul.

Troops and passengers (in that order).
Posted by Pappy 2011-01-31 09:14||   2011-01-31 09:14|| Front Page Top

#5 And the world is worried about how these clowns are going to invade South Korea?
Posted by gorb 2011-01-31 11:22||   2011-01-31 11:22|| Front Page Top

#6 Its almost as if all that nuclear research they are doing isn't really to produce nuclear energy.

Where's Hans Blix? Lets ask him....
Posted by CrazyFool 2011-01-31 11:45||   2011-01-31 11:45|| Front Page Top

#7 Hell, why not ask El-Baradei?

What they need is better planning. Let's see, the wind blows harder in the winter. Let's make windmills!
Posted by KBK 2011-01-31 11:59||   2011-01-31 11:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Economy in a shambles? No worries, comrades! This is Communism. We just need a better Five Year Plan. We'll start on it today!
Posted by SteveS 2011-01-31 12:34||   2011-01-31 12:34|| Front Page Top

#9 They sent factory workers to plow fields in January? In *North Korea*? That seems designed to kill thousands. Not to mention that if they can't dig or move coal, then what the hell are they heating with?
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-01-31 13:03|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-01-31 13:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Socialism.
Posted by Spanky Hupavigum3028 2011-01-31 14:43||   2011-01-31 14:43|| Front Page Top

#11 But think how small their carbon footprint is.
Posted by Matt 2011-01-31 14:57||   2011-01-31 14:57|| Front Page Top

#12 "A (badly run) prison camp with 23 million people in it."
Posted by mojo 2011-01-31 15:53||   2011-01-31 15:53|| Front Page Top

#13 Where is their big powerful new superpower?. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to field a fighter force with the help of Tom Cruse. No show but all show.
Posted by Dale 2011-01-31 17:15||   2011-01-31 17:15|| Front Page Top

#14 Everyone needs to have NORK fail this time and the govt crater, then things can get better when the regime collapses. No bailouts, six party lunches talks, etc. etc.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-01-31 20:12||   2011-01-31 20:12|| Front Page Top

#15 CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > US PREDICTS NORTH KOREA IS THE "NEXT EGYPT", UNITE KOREAN ULTRA-NATIONALISTS! | US STUDY: NORTH KOREA DISSENT ON THE RISE.

and

* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > NORTH KOREA URGES SOUTH KOREA TO HOLD DIALOGUE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE [Any + all former = pre-existing barriers or obstacles to talks no longer exist or matter].

SSSSSSSSSHHHHHHH Artic also read, "...OR ELSE"!

Again, IMO STARVING NORTH KOREA wants to see iff overlord CHINA will accept a STRONG, NON-CHINESE DOMINATED? INTERNATIONAL ECON PRESENCE, ACTIVITIES INSIDE NORTH KOREA, whereas RISING CHINA per se is unlikely to accept same or any formal RE-UNIFICATION WID SOUTH KOREA unless MAJOR CHIN-CENTRIC NATIONAL, GEOPOL SECURITY CONDITIONS ARE MET ON THE KOREAN PENINSULA + NE ASIA REGION, e.g. MAJORITY OR TOTAL US MILFOR PULLOUT FROM SOUTH KOREA + likely JAPAN, + MAJOR CHINESE "BASE RIGHTS" IN SOUTH KOREA + JAPAN [Taiwan?], + NO NUCWEAPONS FOR SOUTH = REUNIFIED KOREA + JAPAN [Taiwan?], + CHIN ROLE IN ANY REGIONAL MISSLE DEFENSE.

NORTH KOREA will wage war in NE Asia for "NORTH KOREA FOR NORTH KOREANS/KOREANS, NOT CHINESE"; CHINA will wage war for CHINESE SECURITY + POST-US MANIFEST DESTINY [Chin-controlled, "First Island Chain" warm-water ports].

To wit,

* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM > NORTH EAST ASIA MILITARY STRUCTURE CHANGES [Regional Balance of Power]:PEACEFUL OR VIOLENT MULTILATERALISM?

PD POSTER = BULK OF ENTIRE NORTHEAST LAND REGION OF CHINA is blocked by RUSSIA + NORTH KOREA [includ Pro-Russia Mongolia, + offshore by Japan + South Korea + Taiwan]; hence is a serious WEAK SPOT" FOR CHINA + PLA SECURITY + POWER PROJECTION. THE LATTER NEED "INDEPENDENT ACCESS" THRU THE SEA OF JAPAN [Kamchatka-Japan-Okinawa-Taiwan.

VERSUS

* GUAM K57/PACIFICNEWSCENTER > WASHINGTON REPORT: [US]FEDERAL BUDGET PICTURE "GRIM" FOR TERRITORIES.

ARTIC > ALA US CBO FIGURES, THE US GOVT = USA IS "BROKE", + BOTH GUAM + OTHER TERRITORIES SHOULD NOT LOOK = COUNT ON WASHINGTON FOR ANY NEW NEW $$$ HELP ANYTIME SOON [time being = near future].
Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-01-31 21:48||   2011-01-31 21:48|| Front Page Top

#16 JM #15 you have got to see this;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351923/China-military-left-red-faced-broadcast-fighter-jets-bears-uncanny-resemblance-cult-classic-Top-Gun.html

Major boo boo propaganda piece.
Posted by Dale 2011-01-31 22:10||   2011-01-31 22:10|| Front Page Top

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