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 ...
I'd triple-down on that bet if I were you. Anyone who'd automatically believe China or Russia's explanations for any such activity of theirs is beyond naive, and fast-approaching stupid.
‘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.”
You are so correct! Look at the WWII movies of Hitler’s army in Russia.
On a much smaller scale, in the oil fields I have driven heavy gravel trucks over freshly bladed dirt roads. After a days use they are rutted to the point of having to use low gear. And that’s without rain!
So think of a thousand army trucks and tracked vehicles on a graded dirt road. The first ones will be doing 40 mph or better, the last ones will be pulling one another at less than 1 mph.
It needs to be hard surfaced to be efficient.
Yeah BUT,
What about all the necessary studies?
They can take decades and raise costs 5 fold.
Betcha they’re not worried about the spotted owl or any other species when building this road.
“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”
Yep, we did. Actually, a while back I watched a pretty good documentary about the building of the road. Think it was on the History Channel or maybe the Military Channel. But, I’m guessing it’s out there somewhere if anyone wants to do a search.
“China created North Korea....”
Well, not quite.
Actually, Stalin (USSR) “created” North Korea but China “raised” it. So, USSR was the “baby daddy” but China was the foster father.
Total noob here, but I assumed the tanks/tracked vehicles would be transported 99% of the way on transporters, like we do.
Everything I know about tanks I got from Tigers In The Mud, thus my knowledge is dated.
The road mentioned above does not pass through economic hubs. Trans-Korean railway can go either along E. Coast(to Russia) or W. Coast(to China) of Korea.
(1) To stabilize the country and shore up the border.
(2) To take control of WMD facilities.
(3) To support N. Korea against U.S..
In all these cases, once Chinese troops are in, would they be 100% friendly to N. Korean regime? Even when they officially come in to help N. Korea? What appears to be a friend can easily double-cross you.
Russia and China both see running the Railway through N.Korea and/or access to would be the solution for N.Korea...Not that I agree with them, but that is how ‘they see’ the solution..as an economic one by lifting N.Korea into the World Trade Markets. Thus giving them recognition as a world trade partner etc.
No need for heavy fighting with U.S.. Somebody else is going to hunt a prey for China, which can get a chunk of it.
As for China, the road to Manpo is not really useful. They already have good one reaching Dandong. Unless China is planning a big development project in the sparsely populated area where the road passes through, it has some other purpose.
1) Trump has led the world to believe he will act if necessary.
2) The last thing Trump wants is to occupy N. Korea
3) Neither S. Korea nor China want to deal with starving NORK refugees...but SK is RIGHT THERE. No trouble getting to the border.
4) This road give the Chinese an option to go in OR to get to the border fast to stop the flood of refugees.
My 2 cents.
It can go either way, depending on how situation unfolds. If U.S. relents or backpedaling on economic sanctions or military threat, China will certainly try to undermine U.S. by quietly helping N. Korea logistically.
On the other hand, they can just easily decide that the best way is to sneak in right after the U.S. attacks and grab as much as they want. Now that things have gotten this bad, they may need a better puppet than Kim Jong-un.
As always with China, it is not clear-cut one way or the other. They can change their posture on a dime. It is our job to make sure that won't happen.
Getting Russia's help is hard to begin with, but got much worse since Swamp turn Russia into a giant Boogieman, as you mentioned.
All we have are a big economic stick and the threat of nuclear arms race in entire E. Asia.
Oh got it!
they need us we don't need them.
Is this the road?
The Ji’an–Shuangliao Expressway , commonly referred to as the Jishuang Expressway is an expressway under construction that connects the cities of Shuangliao, Jilin, China, and Ji’an, Jilin. Ji’an is on the border with North Korea; however there is only a railway bridge across the Yalu River to Manpo, North Korea. No road crossing has been achieved, but North Korea has plans to extend the Pyongyang-Huichon Expressway to the border at Manpo.[citation needed] The expressway is a spur of G11 Hegang–Dalian Expressway.[1]
Currently, it is entirely under construction. It is expected to connect the following cities, all of which are in Jilin Province:
Shuangliao
Siping
Liaoyuan
Tonghua
Ji’an
When NK regime is pushed to the wall, it can do some unpredictable things. They may not against Chinese army, but N. Korea can create quite a collateral damage while fighting U.S. military. For example, radiation leaks, nuclear fallout or some other catastrophic event which can affect N. East China. Then they have no choice to move in.
Actually if such a catastrophic contingency to occur, all outside players have no choice but to move in.
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