Posted on 08/17/2017 8:27:32 PM PDT by cba123
WASHINGTON — Are tensions cooling in the Korean Peninsula? The United States and South Korea will find out Monday, when the two allies are scheduled to start joint military exercises that are known to anger North Korea, sometimes triggering a show of force.
This year's war games come at a particularly delicate moment. There have been exchanges of war rhetoric between President Donald Trump and North Korea's Kim Jong Un. Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon, has further complicated the situation, by stating in an interview there's "no military option" in North Korea while floating a possible deal with Pyongyang that would leave Seoul hanging.
Amid all this back and forth, the U.S. and South Korean military will simulate warfare with North Korea from Aug. 21 to 31, well aware that North Korea could respond with another missile test.
"Over the course of the next two weeks I expect tensions to escalate," said Scott A. Snyder, a Korea specialist with the Council on Foreign Relations who previously was the Asia Foundation's representative in Seoul. "This is always a sensitive issue, but it is more hair-trigger as the North Koreans are very sensitive to the like additional nuclear-capable aircraft flyovers."
Please see full article, at link below.
http://americanmilitarynews.com/2017/08/us-south-korea-war-games-start-monday-as-pyongyang-warns-of-catastrophe/
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What you going to do Young Un ,point at another map
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“Despite efforts by the United Nations to impose isolating sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s continued development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles, trade between Russia and North Korea soared more than 85 percent in the first four months of the year.”
http://www.dw.com/en/russia-steps-up-north-korea-support-to-constrain-us/a-38867861
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From the Sino-Russian Joint Statement of April 23, 1997:
"The two sides [China and Russia] shall, in the spirit of partnership, strive to promote the multipolarization of the world and the establishment of a new international order."
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/HI29Ag01.html
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"Joint war games are a logical outcome of the Sino-Russian Friendship and Cooperation Treaty signed in 2001, and reflect the shared worldview and growing economic ties between the two Eastern Hemisphere giants."
http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2005/09/war-games-russia-china-grow-alliance
In my two years serving in Korea I was somehow in four Tea Spirit exercises. Is this still called Team Spirit or something else?
China has in my own view, been VERY MUCH outside of what is acceptable.
They have been milking America for years, taking our industry.
The worst part is, thus far, too many Americans in leadership positions, have also been selling out America.
Trump is about the first, to stand up to say America needs to be for America once again.
(I think)
We will see. China really, really does not want to push Trump on this. They need to back off, on Korea.
And Trump needs to start erecting defenses, for our industry here in America.
We need to make stuff here, again.
(sorry slightly off-topic, but far too many have been selling us out, for far too long)
In my opinion.
From the article:
“Held every fall in South Korea, the Ulchi-Freedom Guardian war games are the world’s largest computerized command and control exercise. Roughly 30,000 U.S. soldiers and more than 50,000 South Korean troops usually take part, along with hundreds of thousands of first responders and civilians, some practicing for a potential chemical weapons attack.
The exercise, along with one in March, often triggers anti-war protests in South Korea and condemnation from China. While Chinese President Xi Jinping has been noticeably cool toward Kim and has been critical of North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, China has long wanted the United States to shrink its military footprint in Asia, including 12 bases in South Korea and Japan.
In an editorial Monday, China’s Global Times newspaper, an arm of the Communist Party’s People’s Daily, lambasted the decision by the United States and South Korea to go ahead with Monday’s exercises.”
It’s an annual exercise, but the media weirdos are full of drama over it.
Upper management salaries are part of the problem. They’re sky high and have been for decades. That’s one of the main reasons we haven’t been competing in manufacturing. We need technically inclined and educated new faces in manufacturing. Yes, management promoted only from hands-on training and long experience in the technologies that they oversee.
No, part of the problem is those high upper management salaries are going to people who are globalizing entire industries. THEY are selling us out.
THEY are sending jobs overseas. And being fatly rewarded for the travesty.
That is what needs to change. Our entire system is set-up at the moment, to reward these types of sell-outs. We need the exact opposite. Complete turnaround.
That is what I saw in Trump very early.
I sure hope I was right, about him.
Still keeping my eyes open him. Still waiting.
has anyone found out why bannon said what he did? I was astonished. Kimmy is so unstable and his ego is 10 times the size of his bluberry blown up body that he should have known to be quiet.
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