Then there will be expanded sanctions on Chinese banking institutions as well as N. Korean overseas accounts. S. Korea may be also hit by this expanded financial sanction, unless it ceases all economic ties with N. Korea.
To get rid of Kim Jong-il regime, first its protective layer, made up of Chinese regime and S. Korean pinko goverment, should be stripped. We will hear stepped-up howling and screaming from various entities aiding and abetting N. Korean regime in the days ahead, with or witout passage of this security council resolution. I think we are going into the end game soon.
Ping!
"Then there will be expanded sanctions on Chinese banking institutions as well as N. Korean overseas accounts. S. Korea may be also hit by this expanded financial sanction, unless it ceases all economic ties with N. Korea."
Yeah, well, pass me that soju when you're done with it, you must have the good stuff.
The U.S. will never have the balls to sanction China again. If we didn't do shit when they shot down our plane, we sure won't do anything over them propping up a tinpot like Kim.
Apparently the only think the U.N. is good for is that it allows one to properly identify some of their enemies. One Dummy. Two Ventriloquist. So far.
China should know we have an old American saying: Curb your dog.
Good. The Taiwan question has this element of it, too. Taiwanese limpwristers are not nearly as bad as their SoKo counterparts, but there is a large group in Taiwan that would give in to China the same way that the SK appeasers want to give in to Kimmy.
What amazes me is how Americans (esp Freepers) go nutz about WalMart, and then buy Hyundais, Samsung TVs and LG phones from a marginal "ally" like South Korea. Why not by French, too!?
in Chins's view it's all about choosing the lesser of the two evils
The only thing that Russia and China get from backing North Korea is the pleasure of watching NK be a pain to the United States.
They certainly don't have any mutually beneficial economic relationship with NK. They don't need the ports.
In the end (when the "end" will be I don't know) it's all going to come down to a business decision: Do China and Russia benefit more from propping up a White Elephant like North Korea or do they pal up more (in an economic sense) to the West where everything they want and need is available?
It's a tide they know they cannot, nor particularly want to, turn back.
Going on record with this makes me wonder whether Japan hasn't communicated by back channels a threat to rescind Article 9, and possibly even declare itself as a nuclear weapons state, if they don't let the resolution pass. (The comment from the Defense Minster a while back about a decision for nuclear weapons on Monday sufficing for acquisition by Friday suggests that such a threat would not be vacuous.)