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2013-04-12 China-Japan-Koreas

Chinese Troops Mass Along Border with N.Korea

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Posted by Steve White 2013-04-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 Well, it is the year of the Snake.

Posted by tipper 2013-04-12 01:18|| 2013-04-12 01:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Or are they worried that the ROK is going to do something about its yappy cousins?

They're worried about Japan.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-04-12 01:36|| 2013-04-12 01:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I have my doubts, but Chinese Pert on WORLD MIL FORUM argues that China will NOT mil intervene in NOKOR off KJU unilater starts an unnecessary war + no US-Allied ground forces cross the DMZ.

IMO the larger issue is whether China will delay or forego its anti-US "Manifest Destiny" to take over the US position in Asia-Pacific + the World.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-12 01:41|| 2013-04-12 01:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Things could go badly for the NORKs. An influx of ~~illegal aliens~~ hungry people and cheap labor would be detrimental to the economy. The Chinese obviously care about their people and their borders.

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-12 01:57|| 2013-04-12 01:57|| Front Page Top

#5 What kind of defenses does North Korea actually have on the Yalu? It was my understanding that they're all designed to keep Koreans in, and, I imagine, some minor sop towards keeping infiltrators out.

I can't imagine China actually trying to conquer North Korea, the optics for them would be terrible. But maybe a Chinese-facilitated coup, and liquidation of the faction currently pulling Kim Jung Un's strings, in favor of a new, more reliable, more directly Chinese-controlled cadre? I could see that.

Posted by Mitch H. 2013-04-12 09:40|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2013-04-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

#6 ...I don't think they're interested in nation building. It's a lot easier to decapitate the leadership and put in amiable puppets quickly enough not to stir up nationalistic tendencies among the Korean population.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-12 09:55|| 2013-04-12 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 ..and having trucks loaded with rice, right behind the spearhead, throwing bags of the stuff into the hands of the onlookers would do wonders to keep the animosity/sabotage factor down.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-04-12 09:59|| 2013-04-12 09:59|| Front Page Top

#8 Wonton spring ~~roll~~. Why do you ask ?

Posted by Besoeker 2013-04-12 10:06|| 2013-04-12 10:06|| Front Page Top

#9 How dare you alter a pristine and cohesive society like the Norks!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-04-12 12:36|| 2013-04-12 12:36|| Front Page Top

#10 * WORLD NEWS > [Sky News] "NORTH KOREAN REGIME IS UNSUSTAINABLE". AT THIS POINT THE KIM REGIME WILL EITHER HAVE TO CHANGE OR BE CHANGED OUT BY THE [starving, suffering]PEOPLE.

No other choices are left ... ... save de facto North takeover - naturally or forcibly - by China + PLA???

VERSUS

* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > NO USABLE OIL IN DISPUTED AREAS OF SOUTH CHINA SEA?, according to a new Report by the US Energy Information Administration [USEIA].

The majority of "usable" oil is off coastal shores already under State-specific direct or "sole" sovereign control.

IIUC, iff China wants Oil, IT MAY HAVE TO ATTACK ASEAN + NAM STATES AS IT WON'T EXTRACT MUCH FROM ITS NEW OFFSHORE SANSHA/SASHI PROVINCE COMPRISING MOST OF THE DISPUTED SCS???

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > [Daily Mirror]CHINA READY TO PROTECT SRI LANKA SOVEREIGNTY: PRESIDENT [Xi Jinping].

BY Any + All Means Necessary, includ Military.

* FYI SAME > EMOTIONAL FEELINGS FROM BROTHER FROM SAME MOTHER: "UNITED STATES OF INDUSTAN".

Aka "United States of India" = "Super-Indian Subcontinent", IFF INDIA + PAKISTAN [Afghanistan?] CAN EVER OVERCOME THEIR DIFFERENCES + PEACEFULLY RE-UNITE.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2013-04-12 22:36|| 2013-04-12 22:36|| Front Page Top

#11 ..and having trucks loaded with rice, right behind the spearhead, throwing bags of the stuff into the hands of the onlookers would do wonders to keep the animosity/sabotage factor down.

Beats hell out of picking through cow manure to find undigested kernels of corn.

Posted by gorb 2013-04-12 23:01|| 2013-04-12 23:01|| Front Page Top

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