Mr. Chang is pro-appeasement. He is loyal follower of Kim Dae-jung. This makes him pro-China, too. He has some high-level contacts in China. I would believe that Kim Jong-il tried a visit and scrapped it due to media attention. This fits Kim's MO. However, about who sent an invitation or how far China is willing to lean on N. Korea, it would not surprise me if this article contains either China's or Mr. Chang's spin.
Anyway, due to highly uncertain nature of all news on Kim's China visit, I guess I will wait until something fairly convincing turns up. Too much smoke so far.
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"You breakin' my barrs, Hans Brix, you breakin' my barrs! I don't have wapins a mass destruxshun!"
Il's pissed that no one cares if he test fires his stanky bottle rockets anymore...."wait, wait, this one looks good, yeah! Light it - yes! Go! Go...damn. What else we got? Hey this one's an ACME! Let me light it off...RUN AWAY! RUN AW-BOOOOOOOOM!"
3 posted on
09/06/2006 6:29:47 PM PDT by
wvobiwan
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4 posted on
09/06/2006 7:06:37 PM PDT by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
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5 posted on
09/06/2006 7:08:50 PM PDT by
gaijin
To: TigerLikesRooster
I'm not sure why the visit had to be secret.
6 posted on
09/06/2006 7:11:22 PM PDT by
Judith Anne
(Thank you St. Jude for favors granted.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Very interesting. Thanks for the updates. I wish I could figure this out.
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Kim JI's discussions with China's leaders may determine the location and date of the first joint NK/Iranian nuclear test. A small army of technicians from one of the two countries will attend the first few tests in the other country - IMO their nuclear weaopons programs have been de facto merged.
IMO China's leaders do not want those initial tests to occur in North Korea because that would lead to Japan going nuclear in a major, major way, and to a Japanese military guarantee of Taiwan's security.
11 posted on
09/06/2006 9:02:40 PM PDT by
Thud
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Sounds like Kim is still very paranoid about assassination by malcontents in his regime. More and more the train explosion last year looks less of an accident.
12 posted on
09/07/2006 3:49:31 AM PDT by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Sounds like he may have to find a different mode of transportation.
13 posted on
09/07/2006 4:47:00 AM PDT by
nuconvert
([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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Hmmmm... Sick old Kim Jong il going to China for dialysis? Medical Tourism at it's finest.
Sounds like he has only a few years left. Wonder if they will start amputating soon if it gets much worse.
16 posted on
09/07/2006 5:16:57 AM PDT by
AmericanInTokyo
(..is an American allright, but is not in Japan, folks. Thanks for letting me keep the moniker.)
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