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2011-08-23 China-Japan-Koreas

North Korea seizes South's Mount Kumgang resort assets

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Posted by Fred 2011-08-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 HMMMM, HMMMMMM, I wonder iff this has to do wid the RUSSIAN DELEGATION now visiting North Korea???

KIMMIE = NORTH KOREA TRYING TO DO A "VIETNAM/CAM RANH BAY", i.e. set up an anti-China International EEZ-SEZ using SOKOR as cover???

* FYI WORLD MIL FORUM > SOUTH KOREA'S "ASIAN DAILY" BROKE THE NEWS: MASSIVE CHINESE PLA SECURITY FORCE NUMBERING BETWEEN 6000-10,000 TROOPS PROTECTS NORTH KOREA'S KIM JONG-IL.

OTHER REGIONAL NEWS ...

* TOPIX > US MULLED PULLING MARINE FORCES OUT OF JAPAN: MAHER, early in the post-3/11 Fukushima Nuclear/NucPlant Crisis according to former US DepState - Japan Desk Chief.

* TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS [old] = JAPAN WARNED IT MUST DECIDE ON FUTURE OF OKINAWA MARINE BASE.

ARTIC = American Official sacked for making alleged disparaging remarks agz Japan claims US MAY DROP PLAN TO REDUCE OKINAWA MIL PRESENCE + RELOC TO GUAM.
ARTIC =

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 20:25|| 2011-08-23 20:25|| Front Page Top

#2 ION WAFF > VIETNAM HAS RECEIVED A SECOND RUSSIAN-MADE GUIDED-MISSLE WARSHIP [GEPARD-class].

FYI the design of France's brand-new GOWIND-class stealth warships reminds me of SIMILAR_DESIGNED OR LOOKING WORLD NAVAL WARSHIPS ENVISIONED IN OLD PERSONAL DREAMS/VISIONS OF MINE AS PER FUTURE TIME, ESPEC AS PER SHIP VISITS THEN TO A FUTURE GUAM.

[1960's ANGELINA JOLIE, NEW = "OLD" ST. FRANCIS SCHOOL + YONA, GUAM here].

MADONNA = "THIS USED TO BE MY PLAYGROUND ...".

OWG = "GLOBALIST" BABES HAVE GUNS!

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 23:19|| 2011-08-23 23:19|| Front Page Top

#3 CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > {Eric Margolis] THE ERA OF CARRIERS IS ENDING.

* CMF THREAD POSTER = argued that "THE YANKEE IS BROKE..." - ALL THE US CAN AFFORD IS SEVEN [7] AIRCRAFT CARRIERS, ELEVEN OF SAME IS TOO $$$ COSTLY FOR THEM.

* SAME-THREAD CMF POSTERS ...
> claimed that 90% OF US INCOME TAX COLLECTED BY THE IRS IS FOR THE MILITARY BUDGET [mil spending]OF THE USA.
> Another CMF Poster claimed its actually 55%, not 90%, calculating that the USDOD received US$1.2+ Trilyuhn from TOTE FY2010 FED-COLLECTED TAX REVENUES OF US$2.16 TRIYUHN???

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* SAME > GLOBALRESEARCH = [Post-Cold War/USSR] RUSSIA IS MORE [militarily] VULNERABLE TO JAPAN THAN PREVIOUSLY BELIEVED, as per the now-Russian South Kuriles = former Japanese Northern Territories.

Post-Soviet, econ-troubled Nuclear Russia = similar to the Nuclear UK during its 1980's Falklands war agz Argentina where the UK MoD = Royal Navy was hard-pressed to gather potent conventional mil assets together to wage war = limited mil conflict overseas agz a dedicated, but militarily weaker or inferior, State opponent.

FORTUNATELY FOR RUSSIA ....
> ALTHOUGH JAPAN'S SDF HAS THE NUMBERS + HI-TECH CONVENTIONAL MIL ASSETS, CAPABILITIES TO [temporarily?]KICK RUSSIA'S ARSE OUT OF THE SOUTH KURILES, BY THE SAME TOKEN NIPPON DOES NOT HAVE THE STRATEGIC ANDOR TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS TO WIN A WAR AGZ RUSSIA.
> Despite Japan's anger at Russia's annexation = declaration of permanent sovereignty over its former Northern territories, THERE IS NO REAL OR IMMINENT THREAT/DANGER OF WAR BETWEEN JAPAN + RUSSIA OVER SAME.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-08-23 23:47|| 2011-08-23 23:47|| Front Page Top

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