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Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
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.
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?
Quote from: LooN3y on April 07, 2008, 09:13:47 PMtheir 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?A war on the Korean Peninsular would hurt their economy and would be a major embaressment for China, which could also spill over into a greater regional war. SK or the US wouldn't even need to attack, if shit looks like its getting too tense they will intervene themselves BELIEVE ME. CHina and NK are no longer brethren, NK is more of a headache than anything and SK is more important to China these days. Alot has changed in the 20 to 30 years, your still thinking in the Korean war/cold war mentality and that is pretty short sighted.
Quote from: Don Rizzle on April 09, 2008, 04:17:42 AMQuote from: LooN3y on April 07, 2008, 09:13:47 PMtheir 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?A war on the Korean Peninsular would hurt their economy and would be a major embaressment for China, which could also spill over into a greater regional war. SK or the US wouldn't even need to attack, if shit looks like its getting too tense they will intervene themselves BELIEVE ME. CHina and NK are no longer brethren, NK is more of a headache than anything and SK is more important to China these days. Alot has changed in the 20 to 30 years, your still thinking in the Korean war/cold war mentality and that is pretty short sighted.ic, and if china wouldnt back up korea, y not unify it by force, even before they suspected of north korea of developing/having nuclear weapons.now their saying they do, and we went to invade iraq by force because we suspected them of having nuclear weapons and north korea IS AND HAS been developing nuclear weapons. if china wasnt backing them up than wahts teh problem about unifying them by force, why not do it now with chinas support. in the long run it will help out the asia's regional economy if they have 1 korea.the united states is scared of a strong china. lol they regulate them economically today, they can be progessing alot faster but the us government make sure its regulated by them.