Posted on 12/16/2017 7:51:11 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
North Korea is a time bomb: government advisers urge China to prepare for war
The risk of conflict on the Korean peninsula is the highest its been in decades and Beijing must mobilise resources for fallout, observers say
PUBLISHED : Saturday, 16 December, 2017, 10:03pm UPDATED : Saturday, 16 December, 2017, 11:26pm
China must be ready for a war on the Korean peninsula, with the risk of conflict higher than ever before, Chinese government advisers and a retired senior military officer warned on Saturday.
Beijing, once seen as Pyongyangs key ally with sway over its neighbour, was losing control of the situation, they warned.
Conditions on the peninsula now make for the biggest risk of a war in decades, said Renmin University international relations professor Shi Yinhong, who also advises the State Council, Chinas cabinet.
Shi said US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were locked in a vicious cycle of threats and it was already too late for China to avert it. At best, Beijing could stall a full-blown conflict.
North Korea is a time bomb. We can only delay the explosion, hoping that by delaying it, a time will come to remove the detonator, Shi said on the sidelines of a Beijing conference on the crisis.
Addressing the conference, Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, warned that war could break out on the Korean peninsula at any time from now on until March when South Korea and the United States held annual military drills.
It is a highly dangerous period, Wang said. Northeast China should mobilise defences for war.
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False, none of the parties have a way to stop a week-long barrage of projectiles onto Seoul, biological and chemical, except by carpet-bombing with nuclear, which would in itself harm Seoul due to the proximity.
I think you may be right. But a week?
If this story isn’t fake, then the Chinese are preparing by closing the main bridge from China to NOKOand and by building refugee camps along the border.
You forgot to mention the U.S. State Department, but Trump is working on that.
Chi-Coms need America to continue to be their market place.
IF the Donald told them we will stop purchasing any of their crap until and unless they STOP enabling the NORKs. in any way.
The Chi-coms would stop their attack dog.
Not too sure any of the crap they send here is really necessary.
yup, months and months of images of the poor children, families, mothers all while calling Trump and evil racist warmonger and calling for his impeachment due to the terrible crime against humanity.
Just gonna have to let NK hit Californication with a nuke. If a lot of poor ‘undocumented’ children and leftist actors get hit, maybe he left will be ok with hitting NK.
That, of course, is the question for threads such as this, especially since the problem could ultimately affect each of us.
It does seem possible the best solution, insofar as it minimizes the level of potential damage, is for the U.S. to encourage China to occupy and stabilize NK. That action would be preceded by covert measures, perhaps necessarily coordinated by the U.S. and China, that effectively neutralized NK's war-making capabilities.
It is clear we view China as a valuable trading partner the sudden loss of which could have an immediate negative impact on our economy. Why not join with them in such a housekeeping venture?
If Trump attacks NK, it will probably cause the GOP to be swept out of office again like the 2006 election backlash against the Iraq war. Neocon wars are still popular with many older Freepers, but in the rest of society, that kind of foreign policy is less popular than ever.
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