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China Threatens To Bomb North Korea's Nuclear Facilities If It Crosses Beijing's "Bottom Line"
Zero Hedge ^
| 04/11/2017
Posted on 04/11/2017 1:39:52 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With everyone putting down new and/or revised "red lines", be it on Syria or North Korea, it was now China's turn to reveal its "red" or rather "bottom line", and in a harshly worded editorial titled "The United States Must Not Choose a Wrong Direction to Break the DPRK Nuclear Deadlock on Wednesday" Beijing warned it would attack North Korea's facilities producing nuclear bombs, effectively engaging in an act of war, if North Korea crosses China's "bottom line."
The editorial in the military-focused Global Times tabloid, owned and operated by the Communist Party's People's Daily newspaper, said that North Koreas nuclear activities must not jeopardize northeastern China, and that if the North impacts China with its illicit nuclear tests through either "nuclear leakage or pollution", then China will respond with force.
China has a bottom line that it will protect at all costs, that is, the security and stability of northeast China... If the bottom line is touched, China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back. By that time, it is not an issue of discussion whether China acquiesces in the US blows, but the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) will launch attacks to DPRK nuclear facilities on its own."
This, as the editorial puts it, is the "bottom line" for China; should it be crossed China will employ all means available including the military means to strike back," warned the editorial.
It is worth noting is that shortly after publication, the article seems to have been retracted without explanation, the URL now returning a "404" error. However not before the original article was cached on a webpage owned by China Military, courtesy of google.
In the editorial, the author also declared that the "People's Liberation Army (PLA) will launch attacks to DPRK nuclear facilities on its own. A strike to nuclear facilities of the DPRK is the best military means in the opinion of the outside world." The northeastern Chinese provinces of Liaoning and Jilin share borders with North Korea. These two provinces and Heilongjiang are part of the Shenyang Military Region, one of seven military regions of the People's Liberation Army.
The editorial also explained the advantages to the world of a Chinese attack on North Korea's nuclear facilities.
It noted China and the world know the locations of North Korea's nuclear facilities. Once the PLA attacks these nuclear sites, North Korea will permanently suspend its nuclear weapons programs.
North Korea "has limited resources of nuclear materials and is strictly blockaded in the outside world, erasing the possibility for DPRK to get the materials again."
China also noted that "nuclear weapons is DPRK's trump card for its defiance of China and the United States. Once this card is lost, it will become obedient immediately."
The author then speculated rhetorically that if North Korea's "nuclear facilities are destroyed, they will not even fight back, but probably block the news to fool its domestic people. The DPRK will freak out if its nuclear facilities are destroyed." And yes, a Chinese author said "freak out."
The report also said that "the DPRK must not fall into the turmoil to send a large number of refugees, it is not allowed to have a government that is hostile against China on the other side of the Yalu River, and the US military must not push forward its forces to the Yalu River. It notes that "this sentence is meant for the United States, because the premise of it is that the US military has launched attacks to the DPRK."
But what may be the most notable part of the oped is the mention in the Global Times editorial that North Korea will not be "not allowed to have a government that is hostile against China on the other side of the Yalu River." This implies that if and when the US initiate strikes on NK, the Chinese PLA will likely send out troops "to lay the foundation" for a favorable post-war situation.
In other words, China may be just waiting for Trump to "decapitate" the North Korean regime, to pounce and immediately fill the power vacuum.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: china; northkorea; nukes
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To: DoughtyOne
80 days in and he seems well on the road to defanging North Korea and preventing any more use of chemical weapons in Syria.
Of course all of this is none of our business. /s
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Some people here are adamant that none of this is our business. Tiger Lily certainly opposes such activities.
To: fortes fortuna juvat
Many of us Conservatives are Christians.
It would seem to me the Christian thing to do would be to step in and stop the use of Chemical Weapons, if we are in a position to do so. It’s helping our neighbor so to speak.
This didn’t cost one U. S. Citizen his/her life. It didn’t get us mired down in a massive ground war. It was limited, a one-of act.
I am floored at the lack of interest in stopping something this disgusting.
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posted on
04/11/2017 6:27:25 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
To: SeekAndFind
Website hacked and use of psyops? The words “freak out” stood out to me. What if we are rattling NK and the people of China by putting out an article like this?
To: dp0622; 2ndDivisionVet
2nd Div:
Yes, South Corea is not a helpless little country anymore and they do have a fierce Military.
dipxxxx:
Really? The mass casualty is “acceptable to you” because you don’t live there? you do realize that we are talking about PEOPLE, HUMAN BEINGS, right? People who study and work their ass off hoping and dreaming for a better future? People whose blood is also blue inside and bleeds red, like you? Nah, it’s okay because you are a heartless keyboard warrior.
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posted on
04/11/2017 7:38:35 PM PDT
by
Chong
To: Chong
sO i’m the one that says they are going to get clobbered and you and my bit of sarcasm goes right over year head but Vet, who says people will die so nonchalantly, you just say “duh, yeah, great miliary”
you sir, are brain dead. Go find Cheech.
And don’t bother me again. You’re not worth it.
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posted on
04/11/2017 8:09:47 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: hal ogen
But not without 10s of thousands of dead.
why do you people keep purposefully missing my point.
And did you tell me this because you thought I thought SK’s loved him?!!?!
Bye
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posted on
04/11/2017 8:10:54 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
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posted on
04/11/2017 8:13:04 PM PDT
by
dp0622
(The only thing an upper crust cIonservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
To: Chong; dp0622
I spent two years of my life defending the people you say I don’t care about and my late father fought in WWII to liberate them from the Japanese and the Korean War to save them from the communists. Explain that.
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posted on
04/11/2017 8:22:58 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: SeekAndFind
Let it be so, Lord. Few things are sweeter than watching one evil nation blow another evil nation into chop suey.
To: Lionheartusa1
I thought China and the Norks were basically allies ,, this sounds like bull . It 99.999% is BS. Someone would have to be pretty naive to automatically take everything the ChiComs, or Russians, say as sincere and factual.
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posted on
04/11/2017 9:06:43 PM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal: details at my FR home page)
To: arrogantsob
BOL!
Tricky Donald. Hacking the Chinese newspaper and putting this article out essentially saying the Chinese are siding with the US. Pretty clever, he learned it from the Russian hacking of the election, no doubt.
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posted on
04/11/2017 10:15:29 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Don't bother reading fake news about Trump on FR. Trump will tweet or email us his real news!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They (SK’s)have a very powerful military.
Well trained, motivated and know that if the NK’s succeed they and their families are dead or worse.
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posted on
04/11/2017 10:19:10 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(Don't bother reading fake news about Trump on FR. Trump will tweet or email us his real news!)
To: robert14
Sounds like China is giving the green light to take out Kim and NK nuclear faciliaties. But saying at the same timenot to try and install a pro west government. Basicly we can remove the threat but they pick the replacemrnt.
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posted on
04/11/2017 11:36:20 PM PDT
by
Kadric
To: Hotlanta Mike
Trump probably told Xi over dinner if he doesnt reign in the little fat man the US will be placing nukes in Japan and South Korea... No. Trump probably told Xi over dinner, something much worse for China: If China doesnt reign in the little fat man the US will not be able to prevent Japan and South Korea from acquiring nukes. If one understands the old hatreds and antagonisms, the power of this (compared to how the Chinese feel about the US) becomes evident...
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posted on
04/11/2017 11:38:16 PM PDT
by
Paul R.
To: matt1234; robert14; SeekAndFind; 2ndDivisionVet; caww; DoughtyOne; All
To: SeekAndFind
Their bottom line does not get crossed if Kim bombs anyone else but them.
I will get really hacked off and pitch in if the zombies come to MY house.
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posted on
04/11/2017 11:54:35 PM PDT
by
xzins
(Retired US Army chaplain. Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory.)
To: gleeaikin
China has been trading with South Korea for many years. They are no longer enemies in any real sense.
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posted on
04/11/2017 11:55:48 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
KDramas are very popular in China. “Descendants of the Sun” got huge ratings in China.
To: SeekAndFind
where is NK getting all this money to buy toys ?
Is this actually a two faced ploy by China ? pretending to attack NK, while in reality NK is their mercenary force ?
To: gleeaikin
in such a scenario, china could actually incidently by proxy , annex both South and North Korea without firing a shot.very clever trick
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