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It was an Armistice, a ceasefire.
It always can and always could have become a shooting war again.
Might be worth considering that Canada is likewise still a party to the armistice; a reason whey we keep a token representative there. I wonder how a country that then had a full brigade in Korea and a full division (and an air wing, and an anti-submarine fleet based on an aircraft carrier) being organized for NATO would deal with a call to action when finding the resources to keep one rifle company in far off Latvia is proving a struggle; the latter idea deserving much more examination than anyone except those who are scraping to make it happen are giving it.
I wonder how many North Korean “assets” have used the Canada & US open borders to set up little killing shops across the nations.
A forest fire here, a train derailment there, a few tainted drugs on a shelf, some chemical industrial accidents……………
The future of N. Korea is all about China. Supposedly China cut off coal imports from N. Korea in retaliation for their missile program.
A threat of S. Korea and Japan going nuclear would be huge in China. I suspect they would accelerate regime change in the North to prevent that. Bottom line is that there is a clique in the North that live a lifestyle that they would likely lose if their strategy of brinkmanship was lost.
The North is doomed if their propaganda value is lost to China. China likely sees more value drawing S. Korea, Japan and the Philippines away from the American sphere. The regime in the North could be removed and the North become a mere geographic barrier.
It is nice that in such troubled times we are guided and led by the Liberals and the Great Shiny Pony.
Kim’s half-brother was killed with VX gas? That’s a message all by itself.
Indeed.
China needs North Korea as a buffer zone and Kim needs an empire to be maintained.
But this dance has gone on long enough.
China needs to be penalised for backing North Korea.
Sooner or later, Japan and South Korea (among others) will arm and that gives China something to worry about.
One cannot frighten a country that might retaliate in some form.
What would be the most humane and efficient way of toppling the North Korean regime and replacing it with something resembling a liberal democracy?
Communist China uses N. Korea as a proxy warrior-nation against the West (in Asia … read: S. Korea and Japan) Same as Iran (and fellow radical Islamic States) use “The Palestinians” as proxy warriors against the West (in the Middle East … read: Israel). Isn’t it time that America nominates a remote (controlled) proxy-warrior nation to fight our battle against Communist China ? How about re-arming Japan? No, I am talking; nuclear arms, not a bombardment of Hello Kitty products on the Chinese. How about S.Korea itself ? Pull-out our troops and SELL them a bunch of Nuclear Arms ? Or India ? (H1-b Visas for nuclear arms?). After all … doesn’t the world population need a little thinning out ? After all, who would be disappointed if the FAR East was turned to glass … let-alone the MIDDLE East. Just think of how we would improve the Environment … no more Asian Brown Cloud. OK … so we trade some nice, clean, nuclear isotopes for Co2? Fukushima has already tainted a chunk of Japan anyway. Or perhaps the USA could arm Canada ? Use our neighbors to patrol the DMZ? After all … what are Allies for? All we need do, is convince Baby-Trudeau how “green” it would be to wipe the Chicoms off the planet.
NK’s missiles can now reach out a thousand Km,and Kim says they are being tested for a future strike against America. We should take him at his word,one day when they can reach the USA,they will.
The U.S. should arm Japan and S.Korea with nuclear weapons capable of obliterating North Korea. This is the only way China will cease backing North Korea.
I LOVE this sentence from the article:” Perhaps China can produce a diplomatic miracle and convince Kim Jong Un that ending the program is the only way he and his regime will survive. This diplomatic miracle would deserve a Nobel Peace Prize.”
Maybe Trump should appoint Nobel Peace Prize awardee Barack H.Obama as special Ambassador to North Korea,so he can finally earn the award he was given.
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Re: Geopolitics & Motion M103…
“On the one-year anniversary of a brazen Ottawa shooting
that claimed the life of a 24-year-old Canadian soldier,
Justin Trudeau avoided mention of the word terrorism.”
some actions are apparently more tolerable than others.
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Mention of the Korean war brings back bittersweet memories. In first grade we were exhorted to bring all the extra coat hangers to school for the war effort. ( shrapnel for hand grenades).
In second grade a little girl in my class had a dad who was in Korea with the RCAF. He died in combat and was buried right next to the school in the Anglican cemetery. Full military honors including 3 gun salute. Can you imagine the impression that made on a 7 yr. old boy?
I’ve had the highest respect for the military ever since.
Meh ! Jerry Brown has already DECLARED California is a Nuclear-Free, 3rd-world Sanctuary State. Mssr. Kim Junk Ill would NEVER fire a nuclear missile at CA … because it would be “magically” repelled 6mi. off the coast.
All of Jerry’s (and the coastal population’s) happy thoughts and “good” deeds will ward-off any terrible things from happening to CA. You KNOW that is why CA hasn’t had a serious earthquake since 1989. All the warm thoughts and overwhelming leftist citizens are flooding the state with good vibrations.
China needs to be penalised for backing North Korea.
Anyone who wants that can boycott Chinese products at MalWart.
Indeed.
One can also stop money filtering into North Korea:
http://freekorea.us/2017/03/15/un-report-finds-extensive-evidence-that-china-hosts-n-koreas-proliferation-networks/#sthash.5PBwrBiS.dpbs
Aren’t all those foreign entanglements Andrew Jackson warned against wonderful?
The humane option for N.Korea is to replace the current despot with a benevolent one. You can’t create a sustainable democracy just with regime change. For the people who grew up in a totalitarian state to become an electorate that can vote functional governments in/out will take a long time.
Tooner – yes, you are absolutely correct. I read a great book a while back the detailed the escape of a NORK young man.
Long story short, his own parents ratted him out and nearly got him killed, When he finally made it to the USA through several countries, he was still totally freaked out by the way the west lives.
Those poor sods are so bloody brain-washed that nothing short of a miracle will help them.
I’m not saying there is anyone (candidate for the despot’s job or nation to impose the regime change) who can do it, just that it would be the thing most likely to effect humane government in their present circumstances. If it can be done.
The longest armistice in history? I sense China is tiring of their petulant client state.
Japan and S Korea go nuclear? Just send a nuke bomb sale man to Taiwan, and the Norks are toast.