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China seeks out Russia over North Korea strategy
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| 2013-12-16
Posted on 12/16/2013 6:13:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:13:43 AM PST
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Window dressing from the PRC.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:18:15 AM PST
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
"He was described as "despicable human scum" by North Korea's state media and accused of treason, corruption, womanizing, gambling and taking drugs."That also describes about 3/4s of the democrat party.
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12/16/2013 6:19:06 AM PST
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ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Lil’ Pudgy wants to run the country like daddy, with 100% control.
Uncle conspired with China to open the country up a bit and develop a la China.
Lil’ Pudgy killed the uncle.
I’m thinking China may kill Pudgy off soon.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:19:36 AM PST
by
struggle
To: struggle
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:26:21 AM PST
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
Window dressing from the PRC. I don't think so. China has better reasons than any other country to want to see the Norks reform their economy. The Chinese are afraid of losing influence over North Korea through an internal coup (to either the Americans or to the South Koreans - same difference), or that North Korea will simply collapse and China will be overrun by millions of Koreans. It is kind of funny to think of the Chinese fearing a flood of immigrants given that all of China's other neighbors are afraid of China for the exact same reason.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:29:35 AM PST
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SeeSharp
To: SeeSharp
China, to a major extent, arms, feeds and provides heating fuel to the NKs.
The PRC could snap its fingers and the Kims would be history.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:34:33 AM PST
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: Eric in the Ozarks
>>Ah so, desuka !
Mochiron!
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:36:19 AM PST
by
struggle
To: SeeSharp
I suspect Uncle Jang was China’s ‘inside man’, and a kind of mediator between them and the Pilsbury Dough Boy. Now he’s been... exploded, they’re worried North Korea is beginning to crumble.
More than anything, they just want a buffer country that’s very hostile to South Korea. Keep the peninsular dwellers at bay while China deals with Japan.
To: SeeSharp
Just give the North to the Chinese. Problem solved.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:36:49 AM PST
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DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: struggle
Sounds like a good spot for some Ricin.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:38:10 AM PST
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Venturer
(Half Staff the Flag of the US for Terrorists.)
To: Venturer
Koreans are an angry people. They’re not very thankful of our sacrifices either. I say make the South FEED the north. No outside help except for the media. The regime will have to fall peacefully first.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:42:45 AM PST
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DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: Eric in the Ozarks
No, I don’t think they have anything like that much control. Uncle “human scum” was China’s man and he just got whacked. China’s aid to NK pas been problematic as well. A couple of years ago they sent a train load of food and the Norks stole the train, locomotive and all.
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12/16/2013 6:52:58 AM PST
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SeeSharp
To: TigerLikesRooster
There is also speculation that Jang may have been made a scapegoat for the failed economic reforms he was implementing in North Korea, raising further concerns that Pyongyang may decide to move in a different directionI suppose the private security force Jang was putting together had nothing to do with it?
Idiot author might read the intelligence reports before throwing crap like this out there.
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posted on
12/16/2013 6:58:46 AM PST
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: struggle
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posted on
12/16/2013 7:00:40 AM PST
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Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
Political axiom...”If you want a friend...get a dog!” In International Politics no one is anyone’s true friend. No One!
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12/16/2013 7:08:16 AM PST
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Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: TigerLikesRooster
...pro-reform leader Jang Sung-taek I think that's a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
To: DoodleDawg
means Chinese style economic program.
He had that idea for a long time. Does not mean he is Gorbachev. More like latter day Deng Xiaping who pursued reformed economy but at the same time he congratulated PLA for running tanks over protesting students at Tiananmen Square, turning them into meat pie.
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posted on
12/16/2013 7:16:53 AM PST
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TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster; DoodleDawg; Eric in the Ozarks; SeeSharp; AmericanInTokyo
19 posted on 12/16/2013 9:16:53 AM by TigerLikesRooster: “Does not mean he is Gorbachev. More like latter day Deng Xiaping who pursued reformed economy but at the same time he congratulated PLA for running tanks over protesting students at Tiananmen Square, turning them into meat pie.” Bingo.
In the West, we often assume that economic freedom inexorably leads to political freedom.
That simply cannot be backed up from world history.
There have been plenty of kleptocratic or oligarchic regimes which were just as authoritarian as any dictatorship or hereditary monarchy.
Fascism is probably the best modern equivalent to the direction in which China appears to be moving, but there are many older examples from Renaissance Europe. Prussia, Imperial Japan from the late 1800s until the end of World War II, and several other more-or-less free enterprise economies also provide examples of nations in which a relatively small number of major business owners held great influence in but not final control over governmental decisions.
A good case can be made that fascism, by moving economic power into the hands of a relatively large number of businessmen whose success has at least some relationship to their merits, can be a transition step to political freedom.
But modern Chinese history seems to be proving that what can happen doesn't always happen.
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