[TigerLikesRooster]

Everybody is anticipating a coming climax.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[Enterprise]

"Everybody is anticipating a coming climax."

Well, since there is a shortage of about 30 million females in China, I think you're right!

[kjo]

Who'd a thunk it! The N. Korean long China's pet is getting under its owners skin. Are we and the PRC on the same side on this one?

[Seruzawa]

And Madeline notsoBright said that Kim Jong-Il wasn't such a bad guy. Libs just love these murdering dictators.

[SevenofNine]

COME ON CHIA PET do it Do it

I triple dare Chia Pet

[Jet Jaguar]

Bump.

[FReepaholic]

It's Monday in NK. No boom yet.

[nuconvert]

I wasn't quite ready for that this morning.

[RightWhale]

China will take Kim's toys away if he doesn't play nice.

[kinoxi]

This is about as convenient as the palestinian 'civil war'. Everybody pretty much wins.

[struwwelpeter]

some South Korean MPs fear China could grab territory from the north in the event of a collapse.

Some South Korean MPs had their chance to push regime change up north, but instead they decided to feed the DPRK army through their generous handouts.

I'm ready to cede China all of North Korea. They're short of wimmin, heck, Korean ladies make fine wives, though the North Korean women maybe a little out of practice in the kitchen (tree bark Kim-chi, anyone?).

Go for it, China! Hell, I'll even throw in the Primorsky Krai. It'll be theirs in a decade, anyway.

[engrpat]

I look at Kim the same as I do Clinton...anything to stay in the news, anything to be in the spot light.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

This should be 'interesting'....

[motorola7]

There won't be any "test". This is just the same old scam run by China and NK to tweak the West. And now Iran and probably Russia are clued in as well.
Kim plays the loose cannon with nukes; China is the only country can can have any effective influence, and America must beg them to "rein in" the nutjob in Pyongyang (meanwhile the Chicoms are lasering American satellites are running massive hacker attacks).
As usual the dust-up diverts attention from the Iranian nuke situation as sanctions seem to be a bit more likely. Another favor delivered to China's new best friend, Iran.
Keep in mind that China is THE "root proliferator" of nuclear technology through NK, Pakistan, Libya, Iraq, and now Iran.
It's all part of China's clandestine war against the US.
This is not going to change and Kim is not going away. He is too valuable to the Chinese.

[Zack Nguyen]

Then, in front of the Chinese troops, one seized her and another speared her hand — the soft part between thumb and forefinger — with the point of a sharpened steel cable, which he twisted into a leash.

"She screamed just like a pig when we kill it at home in the village," the soldier later told his relative.

Such liberalization. I thought the Chinese were just this side of a democracy now, and we should feel free to spend billions without concern over human rights, as things were getting better all the time.

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[Zack Nguyen]

That would destroy the balance of power in northeast Asia that has kept the peace since the end of the second world war.

Except, of course, for that little skirmish we refer to as the "Korean War." Sheesh.

[hershey]

China created the monster and deserves what she gets.

[AmericanInTokyo]

japanese news TV today reports JAPAN-CHINA teamwork to thwart North Korean nuke test. they refer to it as a 'renkei' play (an alliance teamed against North Korea):

[Killborn]

Bets on ChiCom invading NoKo?

Bets on vice versa?