PLA troops head to DPRK border as North-South tensions mount

[pscot]

The People's Liberation Army has sent troops to China's border with North Korea as escalating tensions on the Korean peninsula have pushed North and South to the brink of possible war.

The Hong Kong-based Oriental Daily reported Saturday that internet users have been uploading photos of what appear to be PLA armored vehicles and tanks passing through the streets of Yanji, the seat of the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture in eastern Jilin province. The city, considered a key transport and trade hub between China and the DPRK, is less than 30 kilometers from the 1,400-kilometer border.

The military deployment is believed to reflect how seriously Beijing considers the the current standoff between North and South Korea. Delegates from Pyongyang and Seoul have agreed to continue talks at 3 pm Sunday local time after the first high-level dialogue between the two sides in nearly a year was adjourned following a marathon 10-hour session.

http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20150823000133&cid=1101

[Lurks Often]

1. I wonder what the Chinese are telling the little POS in charge of North Korea

Economically China needs South Korea, the United States and Japan* far more then it needs North Korea. Hopefully the Chinese are telling North Korea that China will NOT support North Korea in any conflict.





*I include Japan because if the North Koreans decide to be stupid and seriously attack South Korea they might just attack Japan as well.

[pscot]

3. The Kim family are a blight

China must have seen them as buffer against the South but they have way outlived whatever usefulness they might have had. Maybe China could retire them to a nice villa near Peiping. Not too near.

[Lurks Often]

5. Promise a villa and then put them in an unmarked grave,

although life in a super max has a certain appeal as well as the little POS spends then rest of his life as a prisoner.

Probably millions of North Koreans have died under that family's rule

[NuclearDem]

2. Knock it off, Kim. You're being an asshole.

[spanone]

4. S. Korea agrees to end propaganda as North expresses regret for provocations

TOKYO – North and South Korea reached an agreement early Tuesday morning to resolve the showdown on the divided peninsula, with Pyongyang expressing regret for recent provocations, including a land mine attack that severely injured two Southern soldiers.

In return, Seoul agreed to turn off the loudspeakers that had angered Pyongyang so much that it had entered a “quasi state of war.” They will be silenced at noon local time Tuesday.

The deal came after three days of marathon talks, during which North Korea was moving troops and military equipment to the border, apparently trying to signal it was ready for combat, while South Korea declared it would retaliate against any provocation.

Initial details suggested the deal was a win for Seoul, although it didn’t quite get the apology it wanted from Pyongyang for the attack earlier this month in which two soldiers stepped on a box mine — a North Korean device — on a known patrol path just over the southern side of the border. One soldier lost both his legs, while the other lost one.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/north-korea-hates-those-loudspeakers-because-they-make-fun-of-kim/2015/08/24/439f6039-3f37-490b-9fa1-e3b8022893e6_story.html?hpid=z3