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2013-02-15 China-Japan-Koreas

Norks to test two more nukes in 2013

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Posted by Steve White 2013-02-15 14:40|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 Why should we talk to Pudgy, except to tell him to FOAD, when he's just a puppet? Maybe a more effective approach would be to slap some stiff, across the board tariffs on the crap we import from China. Yeah, I know that'd jack up the prices we pay for the crap but maybe then we wouldn't buy as much of it. Put the sanctions on the Chinese and then see what happens.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-02-15 15:41|| 2013-02-15 15:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Fuck it. Time for Taiwan, South Korea and Japan to nuke up. Hard.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2013-02-15 17:16|| 2013-02-15 17:16|| Front Page Top

#3 The Chinese are purported to be so long range in their thinking and planning. Yet, the only apparent end of all this thinking and planning is to surround themselves with hostile nations.

Insrutable.

Posted by Dopey Sinatra9196 2013-02-15 18:03|| 2013-02-15 18:03|| Front Page Top

#4 They don't care if the surrounding nations are hostile as long as they are subjugated...like Tibet...like North Korea.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-02-15 18:14|| 2013-02-15 18:14|| Front Page Top

#5 ...like the United States...

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-02-15 18:15|| 2013-02-15 18:15|| Front Page Top

#6 When Bill Clinton renewed MFN for China in 1994 he echoed George Bush's assertion that "the Chinese would take more steps to improve human rights if the issue were separated from the threat of trade sanctions".

Now we see more clearly where that misguided policy is leading us and it isn't good. We tried the carrot and it isn't working. It's time for the stick.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2013-02-15 18:24|| 2013-02-15 18:24|| Front Page Top

#7 "Time for Taiwan, South Korea, + Japan to nuke up - hard" > "post-US", #1 wannabe China + PLA won't stand for that, spec vee historical rival Nippon, + will likely initiate major war in East Asia.

The Clock is ticking faster + louder - e.g. Nuke wannabe IRAN, the longer China = USA-Allies wait in [meritorious] deference to Diplomacy + UN-led Sanctions, the more difficult things become. IRAN IS NOW MUCH CLOSER TO DEV NUCWEAPS, NOT FARTHER.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-02-15 18:30|| 2013-02-15 18:30|| Front Page Top

#8 I would ignore (publicly)the NORKS, while keeping up intel ops. Pudgy is just yanking our chain and taking attention ahead of O, which is not hard to do. I would have NO comments, but do the quiet work.

With respect to Iran, we have pi$$ed away time when we should have been doing more sabotage to their big site for centrifuges, as well as other components of the Iranian nuke program. O has been doing the same thing as the EUnik diplos which is zero. Dithering from behind. We are in for some nasty attacks.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2013-02-15 20:00|| 2013-02-15 20:00|| Front Page Top

#9 I think these guys have forgotten a really basic business principle. When you run a reclusive county that deals in counterfeit cash and methamphetamines .... NEVER sample your own products BEFORE you decide your foreign policy.

That would be my take on it :-)

Posted by Raider 2013-02-15 20:46|| 2013-02-15 20:46|| Front Page Top

#10 See JAPAN TIMES > NORTH KOREA UPGRADING ROCKET SITE, FEATURES POINT TO IRANIAN HELP.

and

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > NORTH KOREA READY FOR ICBM TEST | [Space Daily] NORTH KOREA MAKES PROGRESS AT MISSLE SITE.

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [Rodong Simrun] NORTH KOREA: NORTH KOREA MUST HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND INTERCONTINETAL MISSLES TO DETER WEST, i.e. for its Existential, National + Nuclear Security.

VERSUS

* BHARAT RAKSHAK > [The Australian = Greg Sheridan] SOURCE: NOKO NOW IMMUNE FROM ATTACK.

Quoting an anonymous US Official, whom also claims that the DPRK has now become an EXISTENTIAL THREAT TO THE US???

"IMMUNE FROM ATTACK" > IMO 'tis likely a bit premature - KEY WILL BE ANY INDIGENOUS NUKE-ARMING OF SOUTH KOREA [ + Japan, ASEAN?].

RELATED ASAHI SHIMBUN/AJW > JAPAN DEFENSE CHIEF [DM Itsunori Onodera] COULD HAVE PREEMPTIVE STRIKE ABILITY IN FUTURE.

* SAME > NUCLEAR "FINGERPRINTING" SHOWS JUST HOW POTENT NORTH KOREA'S NUCLEAR ARSENAL HAS BECOME.

Explosive yield for NOKOR's various Nuke Tests has upwardly progressed from one-kiloton back in 2006, to five-kilotons in 2009, to now ten kilotons in 2013.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > CHINA MUSCLES [out] THE US IN PACIFIC.

ARTIC > SENIOR PLA COLONEL LIU MINGFU from PLA's National Defence University = CHINA to force the US out from WESTPAC widin another twenty years [Year 2030-2033/2035?], US INFLUENCE TO BE LIMITED OR CONTAINED TO EAST OF PACIFIC MID-LINE [read, HAWAII, WAKE ISLAND?].

SECURITY ANALYSTS = US FACING ITS MOST DANGEROUS STRATEGIC SECURITY CRISIS SINCE END OF THE US-SOVIET COLD WAR.

[AL "THE HELL YOU SAY" BUNDY here].

* FREEREPUBLIC > [Free Beacon] "BEAR" BOMBERS [Bear-H] OVER GUAM: RUSSIAN NUCLEAR BOMBERS CIRCLE GUAM.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-02-15 23:18|| 2013-02-15 23:18|| Front Page Top

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