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2013-03-20 China-Japan-Koreas

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Posted by tipper 2013-03-20 00:50|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 'rehersal'

Yeah, like Operation AI was a 'rehersal' for WWII.

I hope my battlebuddies at Camp Humphries have their Sierra in a sack and all squared away. The clock's started.

Countries in NK's situation don't disrupt their centrally-planned economy and civilian food deliveries lightly.

Got your bug-out bag ready?

Orion

Posted by Orion 2013-03-20 01:19|| 2013-03-20 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Then let us give them all they can handle.

Posted by SAM New Delhi 2013-03-20 02:27|| 2013-03-20 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Yeonpyeong Island, Baengnyeong Island, Daecheong Island will most likely be seized by North Korea. Obama will do nothing about it.

Posted by Gerthudion Therong9915 2013-03-20 02:37|| 2013-03-20 02:37|| Front Page Top

#4 Kimmie v2.0 recognizes the weakness of US leadership and shall exploit same....

Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-03-20 08:54|| 2013-03-20 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Issue isn't what Obama will do, it's what the SKors will do, and whether Obama will (or can) restrain them. The new ROK president simply cannot allow Northern aggression to stand; she's done otherwise.

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-20 08:59|| 2013-03-20 08:59|| Front Page Top

#6 Norks may be bluffing themselves right into a shooting war. Pudge won't be able to back down if there's an exchange by an itchy-fingered Nork General

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-20 09:52|| 2013-03-20 09:52|| Front Page Top

#7 We may about to witness what happens when bureaucrats living in their own fantasy bubble suddenly do something really really stupid. BTW, that applies to multiple parties in this case.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-20 10:13|| 2013-03-20 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Norks may be bluffing themselves right into a shooting war.

It's more instigation than bluff. The NorK's objective appears to be to get South Korea (and to a lesser extent, the US) to shoot first or to back down and treat with them. Methinks the latter is the actual objective.

Posted by Pappy 2013-03-20 10:16|| 2013-03-20 10:16|| Front Page Top

#9 I think that is indeed the objective. However, I think they're miscalculating with regard to Park -- she can't back down gracefully at the very start of her administration.

Posted by Steve White 2013-03-20 12:44|| 2013-03-20 12:44|| Front Page Top

#10 IBID
P2K's comments set the context increasingly here at home, but I'm not so sure hte one-trick pony Norks know that. SO setting the new edge in their never-ending game of payola brinksmanship may actaully go too far and spark the South into an action that crescendo's into a major fracas.
When the Nork Generals sense that their game is threatened, either they do Pudgey in, or go for broke. While the Septegenarians in their ranks have a sense of the true limits of their military, young turks may actually buy their internal BS and think they can redo 50 since Champ really won't pull the trigger?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2013-03-20 13:09|| 2013-03-20 13:09|| Front Page Top

#11 If the Muslim Brotherhood had a chance to take over North Korea, Champ would be in.

Posted by Gerthudion Therong9915 2013-03-20 13:41|| 2013-03-20 13:41|| Front Page Top

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