Posted on 05/28/2011 8:44:18 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Miffed Kim Jong-il Pares Down Entourage for Meeting with Hu
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's entourage to a meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Thursday was severely pared down, apparently because Kim is sulking after his hopes for Chinese investment in his backward country did not materialize.
According to the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency on Thursday, Kim was accompanied by just three officials -- Deputy Premier Kang Sok-ju, Kim Yong-il, a former premier and now party secretary for international affairs, and First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan.
But Hu Jintao attended the summit along with nine other officials including Vice President Xi Jinping, Wang Jiarui, the chief of the International Liaison Department of the Chinese Communist Party, and Commerce Minister Chen Deming.
A South Korean intelligence officer said, "It is natural for both sides to have a similar number of people attending the summit in diplomatic protocols. It seems Kim Jong-il was expressing dissatisfaction over less than satisfactory results of talks with Premier Wen Jiabao about economic projects."
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Do you get the feeling CHina getting tired of Chia Pet crap LOL!
The above is what I gleaned from the article interesting to me....but I didn't know Kim's 4th wife held any power at all????....... What's with that????....I had heard she was influential to some extent, but to what degree? She's sitting in a prominent position in the meeting with Chinese officials which certainly would say she 's doing more than simply "influencing".
Nah...I think they’re being pressured by international leaders, otherwise China would be happy to keep the status quo.
Thanks Tiger...I wondered about this....I hadn’t noted her presence at other meetings so this was a surprise to me.
Curious as to why he didn't bring his son along. If he's the successor, that would seem a no-brainer. Unless the Chicoms told him NOT to bring the kid along.
Right now, what's the chatter in your neck of the woods on whether or not, when the old man croaks, the son will be able to transition smoothly, or could there be an internal schism..
Re: Do you get the feeling CHina getting tired of Chia Pet crap LOL!
Nah!!! It’s more like China just doesn’t want to get Japan [[[and the South Korean establishment in particular]]] all hype up about Kim’s militarism. That is probably why Beijing would give the Pakis all the equipments they wanted but denies Pyongyang the same privilege. Kimmy Boy is probably pretty pi**ed with that and is mighty unhappy with Beijing for the different treatment. He ordered 30 JH-7’s, he also asked for J-10’s in the past but was rejected. The Pakis asked for 50 JF-17’s and Beijing gave it to them all gift wrapped and nicely decorated. This will cost Beijing Dearly because the move will likely [and finally] send Pyongyang towards the American camp.
What really cracks me up is that when China sent trains to NK with relief supplies, NK kept the trains.
I think ALL leaders are fed up with N.Korea and have been some time......problem is the Nuclear threat Kim holds over everybody’s head..and he's just crazy enough to use it when the missile's alone don't change the tide.
What was Kim's reason for keeping the trains? Makes no sense to me?
As for the Chinese trains. Kim likes trains and obviously couldn't bear to part with them. Woo-woo-woo, chugga, chugga, chugga.
How do you know his people is starving?
For all intents and purposes, if I zoom in on America’s [or South Korean’s] poor and those living in a deep state of poverty and/or those of the homeless, you would wonder why these people were permitted to live such an existence too.
Hell! I go to the run down side of my town and it scares the hell out of me. People there sh*t and empty themselves anywhere and everywhere they can find a spot to do it.
And, for nourishment? You don’t have to believe me, but these people would pilfer the garbage dumps in the back lanes of the restaurants and the eateries of these businesses and that, my friend, is BS.
I mean how’s about showing some smarts here, people.
Maybe Chia Pet want go to concert to soothe his roaney soul TOO LOL!
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Maybe Chia Pet want go to concert to soothe his roaney soul TOO LOL!
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Re: China’s been playing hard ball with the US since Bo took office
Nah!!! I think that [hard balling] goes further back, way back, back to the days of [Deng & Jiang whatever their names]. The first was the ‘96 Taiwan missile crises followed by the Bosnia Chinese Embassy thingy. Those were insults on the eyes of the Chinese, it was intended as an insult by the Americans. Chinese are a groupy that don’t forget. They try to even the odds when the time is ripe for them to do so. Bo as you call it have no bearing whatsoever on the situation. If you have something against Bo, take it up with him personally and don’t beat around the bushes.
Re: There are enough credible reports coming out of NK, defectors and the like, that indicate that there is widespread starvation at worst and widespread malnutrition at best.
Defector(s): What is the definition of defector? It’s simply what it says it is: Defectors!
All defectors have a beef with the authorities of their country. Defectors, as is with dissidents, almost always comes attached with political agendas or personal grievances as their agendas — grievances and political agendas which are very very unreasonable — and grievances and agendas which, if it was to have happened in the West, would amount to the breaking of a law.
These [unreasonable] people are [irrational] people’s. Sometimes, of course, these defectors and dissidents are paid agents of foreign secret service establishments. America usually court marshall or throw the book at people who breaks the law.
rere: China’s been playing hard ball with the US since Bo took office.
Since Bo’s been in office China has basically thumbed their noses at Bo and sidestepped him entirely for the most part.
As for responding further to the rest of your post...why bother?
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