Kim il Jung has made two deadly crazy decisions recently.
First was a currency devaluation last year which wiped out the entire savings of the North Korean people.
Now he ordered the torpedo strike, which has ruined what is left of the economy.
Kim will be gone by years end, replaced by a Cuban/Burma style military junta.
Don’t bet on it. I wouldn’t be surprised if just a non-binding statement is all South Korea will get from the UN, something that would not change China’s trade with North Korea at all.
And as for South Korea’s trade with the North, well they kept the joint industrial complex open and are already backing down on some the measures they announced on Monday so I would not be surprised if the back down on other points too.
China will not cut off its nose, dispite its face...
A fact that will go relatively un-noticed (as much as posible with the aid of the media) when the chips are down...
Sure, we’ll hear about it, but most of the unwashed around the world will not...
All the aid the South provides to the North is just to feed the military, which will have no qualms about attacking the South. And what has South Korea gained by exploiting cheap labor in the North, nothing but more trouble.
In past days I've read here at FR the opinion that there's no way that NK would have torpedoed that submarine without China's prior consent.
Just WHAT is China attempting to gain by not agreeing to sanctions, and is it possible that China ordered the attack on the submarine, and if so, to what end?
Is this really, as some freepers have suggested, some type of asymetrial warfare attempt to drag the USA & Japan into bankrupting focus upon the Koreas whilst China quietly goes its own way, intentionally remaining uninvolved???