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Living in a War Zone
Don Rizzle:
As some of u may know for the last 9 months or so I've been living in Korea, and inter Korean relations are pretty tense right now i thought i'd post my latest blog here to give u my view on the latest devlopments....
With no peace treaty ever signed North and South Korea are still
technically at war with each other. The sunshine policy of the two previous
liberal presidents of South Korea has come to the end, where criticism
of their nothern neighbour was muted and aid was given without condition.
Obviously during the last two administrations the north had it very easy
as far as inter-Korean relations went with two weak presidents, last
years summit in Pyongyang with the previous president Roh Moo-hun was a
prime example.... The north eager to try and influence the then
forthcoming elections to keep the easy going liberals in power decided to
instigate the second ever summit between the leaders of the two countries
with a polically weak president in his final days of office, but it back
fired Lee Myoung Bak came into office with a landslide by promising a
tougher line on NK and focusing on the economy the top of his agender.
Lee Myoung Bak has been in office for about a month and a half and the
first test has come for the new president. It all started with the
south saying they were going to criticise the north for human rights at one
of the UN bodies and the north later responded by test firing some
short range missiles into the sea and has since escalated to both nations
talk of premptives strikes and SK managers of the joint ecomic park
being expelled. To some this may sound very serious, but if you look
beyound all these stunts you will see it for what it really is and that is
the north testing the new S. Korean president, who so far hasn't buckled
and I don't think he will - which is a good thing. Neither side want a
war, especially the Kim Jong Il, because behind all the rhetoric he
knows it will spell out his own destruction, in addition China would
never allow it, they'd rather take him out themselves than see an inter
Korean war.
So for anyone feeling concerned about the recent developments in the
news don't be, I'm not afraid in the slightest.
virtuoso:
I am more concerned that people still see the American government as the good guys "the world policeman" when it was Rumsfeld who when on the board of ABB sold nuclear reactors to North Korea. When he was questioned about it, he said he didn't "recall" lol sells nuclear reactors to a psychopath and then parades as being tough on North Korea it's beyond sick.
LooN3y:
--- Quote from: Don Rizzle on April 06, 2008, 01:07:02 AM ---As some of u may know for the last 9 months or so I've been living in Korea, and inter Korean relations are pretty tense right now i thought i'd post my latest blog here to give u my view on the latest devlopments....
With no peace treaty ever signed North and South Korea are still
technically at war with each other. The sunshine policy of the two previous
liberal presidents of South Korea has come to the end, where criticism
of their nothern neighbour was muted and aid was given without condition.
Obviously during the last two administrations the north had it very easy
as far as inter-Korean relations went with two weak presidents, last
years summit in Pyongyang with the previous president Roh Moo-hun was a
prime example.... The north eager to try and influence the then
forthcoming elections to keep the easy going liberals in power decided to
instigate the second ever summit between the leaders of the two countries
with a polically weak president in his final days of office, but it back
fired Lee Myoung Bak came into office with a landslide by promising a
tougher line on NK and focusing on the economy the top of his agender.
Lee Myoung Bak has been in office for about a month and a half and the
first test has come for the new president. It all started with the
south saying they were going to criticise the north for human rights at one
of the UN bodies and the north later responded by test firing some
short range missiles into the sea and has since escalated to both nations
talk of premptives strikes and SK managers of the joint ecomic park
being expelled. To some this may sound very serious, but if you look
beyound all these stunts you will see it for what it really is and that is
the north testing the new S. Korean president, who so far hasn't buckled
and I don't think he will - which is a good thing. Neither side want a
war, especially the Kim Jong Il, because behind all the rhetoric he
knows it will spell out his own destruction, in addition China would
never allow it, they'd rather take him out themselves than see an inter
Korean war.
So for anyone feeling concerned about the recent developments in the
news don't be, I'm not afraid in the slightest.
--- End quote ---
china doesnt want a war, but unlike iraq or iran, the us threatens to go over the 38th parrallel, china, russia any other north korean ally will start assembling their armies
Don Rizzle:
The reason china has been protecting states like sudan, iran and burma is because they are hungry for their energy resources. Noth Korea is different they have energy shortages, although i believe they do have some raw materials. The biggest factor in this is that china doesn't want an influx of North Korean refugees, that is wshy they've been proping up the NK to some extent, but if things start to get crazy will want to end it as quickly as possible, it has already been publicised that they have plans to pour in troops to secure the boarder and nucluear sites in the event of power struggle. Then you've got to take into account do you think beijing is going to let it little neighbour and the third largest economy in the region duke it out with a potential of it escalating and even put beijiing under threat.
With all this considered China has only one option and that is to pull the plug on DPRP if tensions look set to spill over, there is no idelogical brotherhood anymore China's number one concern is ecomony and NK isn't doing anything to provide for that.
LooN3y:
their not helping the economy, but their not hurting it. in 30 years or so china would prob become the most powerful country int he world by the way we feed them. but say we do cross the 38th, china wouldnt back them up?
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