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Road to WAR: China's secret plans for North Korea INVASION revealed
Daily Star ^ | 16th October 2017 | David Trayner

Posted on 10/16/2017 2:18:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Road to WAR: China's secret plans for North Korea INVASION revealed

CHINA is preparing for a massive land invasion of North Korea, shocking new photos suggest.

By David Trayner / Published 16th October 2017

The Communist superpower is building a six-lane highway in a sparsely populated area of its cold and windy north east.

The massive new motorway snakes across an area where very few of the local peasants have a car and there is little traffic or trade.

It’s destination? The North Korean border.

Experts believe there can only be one explanation for the so-called G1112 Ji'an–Shuangliao Expressway: getting tanks and troops to the border quickly.

Daily Star Online has obtained pictures from inside China of the huge construction.


(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; nkorea
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There is not much economic activity on the NK side of border where the road ends. Many military installations are said to be there, though. So what this article claims is probably right. But Unless it is complete by now, it may not be ready in time for its purported use.
1 posted on 10/16/2017 2:18:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; Grampa Dave; ...

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2 posted on 10/16/2017 2:19:10 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Didn’t we build the major Trans-Alaskan Highway in months in a very inhospitable area during World War II? A military force can push through projects in a lot less time than civilians.


3 posted on 10/16/2017 2:28:16 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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We should just tell China if you help us topple North Korea, we will let you keep North Korea, no need to merge with South Korea
4 posted on 10/16/2017 2:45:23 AM PDT by KavMan
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To: TigerLikesRooster

They wouldn’t use to help their client state like they did during that UN police action, would they?


5 posted on 10/16/2017 2:46:32 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

That’s assuming the actual purpose is to roll surface forces for an opposed invasion of North Korea that has finally pissed them off enough instead of being an artery to pour reinforcements into a North Korea that’s been attacked by American/South Korean/Japanese forces. If the latter, it will probably be complete enough soon enough.


6 posted on 10/16/2017 2:58:15 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

The road doesn’t need asphalt and guardrails to be usable by tanks and military trucks. It just needs the trees removed and be moderately leveled.


7 posted on 10/16/2017 2:58:19 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Socialists want YOUR wealth redistributed, never THEIRS!)
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To: Spktyr

“That’s assuming the actual purpose is to roll surface forces for an opposed invasion of North Korea that has finally pissed them off enough instead of being an artery to pour reinforcements into a North Korea that’s been attacked by American/South Korean/Japanese forces. If the latter, it will probably be complete enough soon enough.”

The economies of China and the US are too interdependently twined for China to allow a major disruption such as North Korea starting a shooting war much less launching a nuke. China is no longer rule by Marxist purists. While still a dictatorial form of government they’re highly dependent on capitalism and trade with the west and surrounding Asian democracies. Any major disruption of the Chinese economy could set off major civil unrest within which is already restless about certain restrictive policies. So, bottom line; China is gonna stick a cork up North Koreas @$$ if things start getting out of hand.


8 posted on 10/16/2017 3:38:11 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: SauronOfMordor

“The road doesn’t need asphalt and guardrails to be usable by tanks and military trucks. It just needs the trees removed and be moderately leveled”

It doesn’t take long for a bunch of tracked vehicles and heavy wheeled trucks and such to turn an unimproved road into mud and slosh morase. And, while these vehicles can obviously navigate through the mess it would slow down the parade considerably. Speed is the name of the game in projecting power and supporting logistics.


9 posted on 10/16/2017 3:44:39 AM PDT by snoringbear (E.oGovernment is the Pimp,)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The Daily Star is the master of the hyperbolic headline. While it is more than likely that the highway is designed with a military purpose, invading NK is among the least likely courses of action the Red Chinese may take.

As noted above, it is more likely to be a line of communication to existing forces and/or a way to reinforce the border in a crisis. The Chinese use the Kims as their pet psychos for their own purposes. If they intervene, it will be to support the Kim dynasty, not attack it.

I'm not sure who their military "experts" are, but I wouldn't be surprised if it isn't a fat kid in his mom's basement who plays Call of Duty all day.

10 posted on 10/16/2017 3:48:18 AM PDT by drop 50 and fire for effect ("Work relentlessly, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than you seem.)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

China invade their communist NK pawn? Nonsense. They and the Russians have no doubt been instructing them to do what they’ve been doing, in terms of threatening us, SK and Japan. In fact, their nuke program was significantly boosted with the help of Russians moles within a former Soviet nuke plant in the Ukraine, thus the reason their tests have suddenly been going so well.


11 posted on 10/16/2017 4:13:29 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

My (purely amateur) analysis -

The Chinese leader has met President Trump.
He has no doubt (correctly) assessed him as a man of principle and resolve.
He therefore knows that there is a point at which President Trump will
- with or without the cooperation of our South Korean friends -
take action to neutralize Kim.

Faced with having a unified Korea (under the South) or a US vassal state (unlikely)
the Chinese would act to occupy and absorb the NORKS.

Despite cultural differences and tensions, the result for the populace
in the North could not help but be a vast improvement.
(The ChiComs may be a bleak and rigid culture by our standards
but compared to what the Kims have wrought they would no doubt be
welcomed as saviors by the people of North Korea.
Full bellies dontchano?)

Anyway, this is a long roundabout way of saying that if we
(US) invade then it’s a bloody conflict.
But if the ChiComs invade, I think their biggest problem
would be processing the mass desertions and defections.

Now I’ll defer to everyone else who will tell me how little I
understand about the social/military reality of the situation.


12 posted on 10/16/2017 4:22:19 AM PDT by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: All
For anyone else with no clue as to what is going on...

Sept 5, 2017

North Korea nuclear crisis: Putin calls sanctions useless

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said pursuing further sanctions against North Korea is “useless”, saying “they’d rather eat grass than give up their nuclear programme”.

The US said on Monday it would table a new UN resolution on tougher sanctions in the wake of the latest test of a nuclear bomb by the North on Sunday.

Mr Putin also said that the ramping up of “military hysteria” could lead to global catastrophe.

He said diplomacy was the only answer.

China, the North’s main ally, has also called for a return to negotiations. ...”

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41158281

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Russia and North Korea declare 2015 a ‘year of friendship’

“The biggest cause for concern is the growing military alliance between Russia and North Korea, with the two regimes recently announcing plans to conduct a series of joint army, navy and air force exercises this year.”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/11463265/Russia-and-North-Korea-declare-2015-a-year-of-friendship.html

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Russia steps up North Korea support to constrain US

May 17, 2017

“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

13 posted on 10/16/2017 4:24:01 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Fred Nerks

China’s secret plans for North Korea INVASION revealed>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

ANYONE who believes that China will “invade” North Korea
is not he sharpest knife in the drawer.

China is building this road to support North Korea when it goes to war with the United States and its allies.

China created North Korea for this purpose, to war with the West.And it maintains its rabid dog on a short leash until China needs to let it go wild.

Any nation that looks like it is winning against North Korea will THEN have to face the might of China’s land army, which turned the tide against the United Nations forces back in October of 1950.

No one will win North Korea without neutralizing China.This road simply proves that is not going to happen.
Its not an invasion road, its a military support road.

There will be no conquest of North Korea without the Russians on the side of the USA and its allies. Pooty holds that key and the crazy a$$hat Dems have made sure that President Trump has no chance to get it.

So now we can only rattle our sabers until North Korea fires first. And if its a nuke, Pyong Yang will glow in the dark as slag.

We must cause the North Korean people to rebel; support them with the food, arms and equipment to do so. And that effort needs to be funded in earnest.


14 posted on 10/16/2017 4:24:01 AM PDT by Candor7 ( (Obama Fascism http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.htm)
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To: Candor7
ANYONE who believes that China will “invade” North Korea is not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

We seem to have quite a few dull blades in our drawer.

15 posted on 10/16/2017 4:26:26 AM PDT by ETL (See my FR Home page for a closer look at today's Communist/Anarchist protest groups)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Article is BS. My bet is Road is for the defense of N. Korea in the event of a US invasion.


16 posted on 10/16/2017 4:43:30 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: snoringbear

>> China is gonna stick a cork up North Koreas @$$ if things start getting out of hand.<<

Things are already out of hand.


17 posted on 10/16/2017 4:54:48 AM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Bypass trade embargo by sea.


18 posted on 10/16/2017 4:55:01 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: shibumi

I think that is a pretty good observation. It is a guess, though, as is any other prognostication. The Chinese, as the Europeans and the Russians, have never dealt with a man like Trump before. They can’t read him by calculating the American Oligarchy’s desires. That makes him quite opaque to them. Anything he does is unexpected.


19 posted on 10/16/2017 4:55:21 AM PDT by arthurus
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To: Candor7

A rebellion isn’t possible when NK has brainwashed its citizens for three generations.
Plus, the fear of seeing your entire family imprisoned if you leave NK without permission.


20 posted on 10/16/2017 5:05:19 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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