Chinese Traders Told to Return North Korean Coal Cargos

Reuters ^ | 04/09/17 | Meng Meng

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SINGAPORE, April 10 (Reuters) – China’s customs department has issued an official order telling trading companies to return their North Korean coal cargoes, said a trading source at Dandong Chengtai Trade Co., the biggest buyer of coal from the isolated country.

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Link to story.

http://gcaptain.com/chinese-traders-told-return-north-korean-coal-cargoes/

[DIRTYSECRET]

How can they support us without supporting us? This crap is coming to a head.

[chajin]

Santa only uses genuine American coal.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe they don’t feel like going through every load weeding out these kind of things:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_torpedo

[Sacajaweau]

This is a big deal and NK's major export. Ouch

Kim pooped his pants again.

[apillar]

It appears that China might very well be getting ready to put their mad dog (North Korea) down. They would much rather do it themselves than have us do it and risk a US puppet state on their backdoor. They invade, overthrow Lil Kim, set up a capitalist moderately authoritarian puppet that answers to Beijing (but is a good deal better that what North Korea has now). The world is happy that the North Korean threat has been taken care of, China is celebrated as a regional superpower and we live happily ever after....

...or Crazy Kim lets his nukes fly, South Korea and Japan rush in to grab their share, we get drawn into the war and World War III begins.

I guess we'll see.

[Arlis]

Didn’t I read somewhere that little Kim has a million-man army?

If so, the Chinese wouldn’t be much of a threat to him with just 150k soldiers on his border..........

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

IMHO they are positioned there to prevent a refugee influx. Again IMHO Trump said I am going to take him out... Ok with you if I roast the fat boy. Xi said go for it.

[Figment]

A million man army with no provisions isn’t much of a deterrant

[redfreedom]

“Didn’t I read somewhere that little Kim has a million-man army?”

Saddam supposedly had a million man army. We all recall how effective that was.

China has more money and more arms sources to get toys for their boys. I kinda think China could whip the NK army much the same manner Saddam’s was dealt with.

[be-baw]

I think you’re right that China has troops on the border to protect against N Korean refugees. That they’re rejecting coal shipments tells me Trump and Xi worked out some kind of deal last week. My prediction: Kim will go into hiding, will stop launching missiles, and try to wait it out until Trump is out of office.

[Moonman62]

It appears that China might very well be getting ready to put their mad dog (North Korea) down.

...

And who was the American president who just lit a fire under China’s butt?

[stylin19a]

I think his army bails on him in a heartbeat.

[kingu]

Let’s review some footage from Iraq from some years ago as to what a ‘million man army’ would mean to 150k Chinese soldiers.

I know which side I’d bet on.

[Obadiah]

That’s my take as well.

[867V309]

Didn’t I read somewhere that little Kim has a million-man army?

999,990 are starving.

[topher]

Most of that army of NK probably are on the South Korean border where there are US troops and South Korean troops.

There may also be more Chinese troops on the way.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Ivanka may have some doing in this. Do you comprehend her popularity amongst the Chinese?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/05/world/asia/ivanka-trump-china.html

Her scolding the Chinese leadership publicly would not go over well for the leaders.

[dfwgator]

You guys have got to check this out. Live stream of North Korean programming.

I think it’s “Pyongyang Patty” talking....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-QJDHiLi38

[ThanhPhero]

Now if we could cut off the North Korean export of $US100 bills to Southeast Asia and elsewhere all Kim would have to get foreign income is his nuclear exports.