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Ridiculous.
If anyone can find a way to lose to North Korea, it’s Obama.
I don’t think so.
Iran has been pretty quiet as of late...and Putin has been flexing his muscles.
think Taiwan..ROC
& we have jackas occupant in the white hut
Wake up people.
Time to bring back US manufacturing.
Now.
Yeah—a dastardly Chinese plot to run freight fuel prices up, so cheap junk from China won’t be as cheap...oh...never mind.
China doesn't likely want a proxy war. There is no real reason to think China would want North Korea to ever attack the South or do anything else other than occupy space. China doesn't want a unified Korea because it would become an even bigger economic power which is friendly to the United States and right on their border. If the North attacks, they would lose fairly quickly and the peninsula would be unified in a way that China has been trying to avoid.
You also significantly overestimate North Korea's military power. North Korea's economy is a tiny fraction of what South Korea's is, and they don't have much modern equipment. North Korea's military is largely comprised of antiquated junk. South Korea has a first world military. Sure the North has lots of hardware, but in reality it is so over matched that the South would win in not very long. North Korea would be wiped out of the skies within a day or two and then their army would be easy pickings.
If North Korea attacks, even with poison gas lobbed at the South's airfields, they couldn't sustain an offensive for long. They'd lose control of the air almost immediately and once their initial burst was absorbed, they'd simply be wiped out. They could kill a lot of civilians in the first 24 hours with artillery, but that wouldn't help them win a war.
All this is being done to stop development of defsen tech and to create a military pact with China.
We will again give up security and freedom for the perception that our uber blue cities are in danger.
F NYC, F Seattle, F LA.
Dumbest analysis of NK I’ve ever read...........stick to your day job.
China has lucrative trade with South Korea. The Norks are a drain on China and IMHO Beijing would like to see an end to it. China has no fear of SK, none at all. They can buy up the whole place if they want to.
Also, Nork refugees pose a SIGNIFICANT threat to the border region. Refugees would pour across that border in numbers even China couldn't handle.
That's bad for business.
No, China no longer needs the Norks. They have become a stone around Beijing's neck, and its time for them to go.
This is how China sees Korea, and they now like the south more than the north. Count on it.
North Korea is just being a dutiful puppet to show that the new “Dear Leader” can evoke a US response that can be measured. If America's enemies are patient and wait for the signal, they can all have what they want and CIC Obama will see that they get it.
When China refuses loans to the US and can displace the dollar (as it is doing with Australia) as the world reserve currency, that will be the signal that action is imminent. China has much to gain and little to lose if it just waits for the right time and persuades our other enemies to do the same.
I’m more concerned with a two front war, NKor and Iran.
Right now, NKor may be using a big diversion ploy to give Iran some breathing space, figuring that Israel was just about to attack. If NKor can just create a big enough distraction, Iran might be able to finalize its nuclear weapons.
nope, i don’t agree with the article.
“U.S. policy for dealing with the North Korean situation is inadequate because it focuses on North Korea in isolation as a rogue state, and naively seeks help from the Russians and Chinese to solve the problem. The North Korea situation and any future nuclear incident, wherever it occurs, must be seen against the background of Sino-Soviet ‘convergence’ strategy: the interaction of Russian and Chinese policy and the moves they make to derive strategic gains from critical situations should be closely studied.” — KGB Defector Major Anatoliy Golitsyn, “The Perestroika Deception”, March 1989, p. 46.
Today Michael Ledeen wrote something similar, that he is afraid that this is a distraction of sorts, to make us focus on N Korea. At such times, he advises, it would be well to look at the NORK’s allies, and see who stands to gain what.
This is absolutely ridiculous and the assumptions are flawed on many levels.
If the Chinese are telling the Norks that dumBO will surrender to them, they have a point.