6:53 PM - 20 Oct 2017 from Washington, DC
Posted on 10/21/2017 4:35:51 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Tonight's Nelson Report (a reputable newsletter on NE Asia): Removing personal assets from #ROK now advisable, say sr. admin. officials.
6:53 PM - 20 Oct 2017 from Washington, DC
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Pray for South Korea, and the innocent people in the north, and America’s soldiers and sailors.
What crap.
The new moon was 19 OCT so I guess we need to wait until 18 NOV ...
Japanese or (oh, sh*t) American.
Yup,the South Koreans,Japanese and our guys over there seem to have good reason to be nervous right now.
Rommel went home to celebrate his wife’s birthday because German weather forecasts for June 6 were unfavorable for a landing.
Re-read the post. The advice was to remove personal assets from “S. Korea.”
I think
ROK = South Korea
&
DPRK = North Korea.
Yup,I got that.NK's elite,like the elite in all Marxist cesspools,are very probably obscenely wealthy.And if they're anticipating anything that could jeopardize that wealth they'd take action.That's how I read this piece....maybe I've missed something.
My perception of the situation is that this is brinkmanship in the tradition of President Eisenhower and his Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles.
Ike pushed NK’s buttons to get the armistice in 1953 and as Tillerson said, there is still a window for negotiations.
The sanctions are finally real.
South Africa faced tough sanctions in the 1980’s and they led to Nelson Mandela’s release from prison and the change in government.
In the case of Japan in 1941, however, tough sanctions led to something else.
It also advised NGOs with assets and personnel in North Korea to GTHO.
Smells of the deep state. I found his mention of psywar games revealing.
Listening to WMAL (conservative talk radio DC) this am. They said N. Koreans aren’t even allowed radios!!
They said defectors, including high ranking military, are in shock when they see the outside. They spend their whole lives only hearing that their quality of life is the best in the world. Sounds like we should be smuggling in radios!!!
Prayers up for their innocent.
Yup.But given that it's a Marxist cesspool ruled by a murderous psychopath my thoughts immediately went to the elite.However,it's certainly noteworthy that others were advised to get the hell out of Dodge.
“They said defectors, including high ranking military, are in shock when they see the outside. They spend their whole lives only hearing that their quality of life is the best in the world.”
That reminds me of “Moscow on the Hudson “.
A Soviet performer, played by Robin Williams, defects while his group is in NYC.
When he goes into a grocery store alone he has a panic attack because everything is so strange.
There aren’t just cans of beans or corn but DIFFERENT BRANDS of everything.
When I was driving long haul I occasionally ran with a guy who used the cb handle “Mad Hungarian” who grew up under Soviet rule.
He got out as soon as the border guard started looking the other way and ended up in southern Illinois.
He said he had much the same reaction as the Williams character, that going from a system where everything was rationed to a system where there was such an abundance that stores received daily deliveries was mind boggling.
His biggest adjustment was getting used to CHOICES about everything.
“Remind me not to buy a Hyundai or Kia for my next car.”
I heard they’re good cars...but I never considered one for just this reason.
Remember that North Korea is short on energy, thanks to the embargo and the apparent cooperation of the Chinese. As it gets colder, and as stockpiled energy supplies give out, the military will have less energy to work with. How well would our military do without fuel or electricity?
This is a wise move to wait until November 18th for the next new moon, so long as Kim doesn’t launch something really damaging in the interim.
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