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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 09:26 PM
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Pay Attention to the Korean Peninsula .... You can't negotiate with crazy LINK
Edited on Wed May-26-10 09:41 PM by Blackhatjack
There are many dynamics at play here, but North Korea is certainly playing a very dangerous game.

Evidence that NK sank the South Korean ship seems to be forthcoming. And North Korea has forced all South Koreans out of the joint interactive area. And of course there is the obligatory NK threat of total destruction of SK.

This is exactly the situation that could be set off by mistake when both sides are already tensely watching everything.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/179243/n-korea-makes-new-threats-as-tensions-rise

S.Korea to punish N.Korea despite threats


"South Korea vowed Wednesday to punish North Korea for sinking a warship despite fiery threats from the communist regime, and the United States said the world must respond to the naval attack.

After North Korea said it was severing all links with the rival South, its military said it would block access to a joint industrial estate if the South resumes loudspeaker propaganda broadcasts across the tense frontier.

A multinational investigation concluded last week that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed one of Seoul's corvettes, the Cheonan, on March 26 with the loss of 46 lives. The findings sparked strong international condemnation of the hardline communist state, but the North's ally China was a notable exception.

The South Monday announced a package of reprisals, including a halt to most trade. It is also mounting a diplomatic drive to punish the North through the United Nations Security Council."

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LakeSamish706 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 09:42 PM
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1. Thats for sure, and with the state of mind of Kim Jong- il who knows what we might
be faced with. One just never knows if he is bluffing for attention or might have completely lost it.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 10:05 PM
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2. I thought China was gonna be calming N. Korea's ass down behind the scene?
I Read that N. Korea's actions may threaten the position that China wants to find itself in,
but they don't necessarily want to humiliate N. Korea where everyone can see it.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1059288/1/.html
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 10:16 PM
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3. Who is Crazy Link?
:)
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Blackhatjack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 10:26 PM
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4. Read the LINK .... Kim Jong Il etal.
The evidence that North Korea sank the South Korean ship (with 46 lives lost) is coming forward as undeniable. And NK is making moves to start the war up again with SK.

A few months back Kim Jong Il called in all the NK money and exchanged it for new money worth close to 1% of the original money called in --which has effectively prevented the population from being able to buy anything.

The situation in NK is getting so desperate that Kim Jong Il starting a war as a diversion is possible in the mind of a crazy dictator.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-26-10 10:26 PM
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5. Who cares anymore?
Why get emotionally invested in another news flash? The US wont go to war here...hands are in too many pots. And if he bombs North America we will be too dead to fret about it. Let it be
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