Posted on 02/12/2016 3:25:53 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Seoul retaliates, China pays price for North Korea rocket launch
By Shim Jae Hoon on February 10, 2016 in Asia Times News & Features, China, Koreas
SEOUL-North Korea's satellite rocket launch has claimed its first casualty amid a changing and increasingly volatile regional security landscape that's dragging in China, the US and Japan.
South Korea announced on Feb. 10 that it's closing down the inter-Korean economic project at Kaesong Industrial Complex which Seoul set up 12 years ago to provide hard currency earnings for the North Korean regime.
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Meanwhile, the Park government has come under pressure from conservatives who want Seoul to seek a nuclear program of its own to counter the North's threats. This will not be easy to translate into action as South Korea is a signatory of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. South Korea is also covered under the US nuclear umbrella. But the media is calling for a change in the country’s current nuclear stance.
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Seoul is also delaying on agreement to deploy a strategically sensitive Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles or Thaad, which Beijing and Moscow oppose on the grounds that it encourages a strategic missile defense buildup in Asia.
All that circumspection has now vanished. Seoul and Washington have formally began talks on placing Thaad system, over China's objection. Russia has also expressed concern, saying it will regard Thaad deployment as a "negative influence" on Seoul-Moscow relations.
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Good. Now the the N Koreans can look elsewhere for currency earnings and spend more time chewin' on rice.
More like chewing on Chinese cattle feed. They import cattle feed to feed their population. They got to cut the cost of feeding people to spend more money for “better things:” nukes and ICBM’s.
The Norks will continue to gain hard cash from the Democrat party, via Iran, China and Russia.
The south does not want reunification. If half of your family was homeless from their own doing would you have room for them?
You heard it here first. I said around 2009 that Obama’s foreign policy would lead to the nuclearization of South Korea and Japan. (Just wait.) I underestimated. Add Saudi Arabia, Iran, and possibly even Germany.
Germany will commit suicide before they accept nukes.
They are in the middle of it right now
But your post is correct
I never knew about this project.I’ve always wondered why one sees “Made In Korea” on various products today while we routinely saw “Made In West Germany” while that country was divided.I sincerely hope that “Made In Korea” doesn’t mean that an item I’ve bought may have aided that fat psychopath ruling the North.
I am confused about it all. We had a thread earlier this week indicating the Norks were shutting the project down.
Who made the first move I wonder?
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N Korea shut it down, booted them out and kept their stuff.
(1) S. Korea suspended all operation in the industrial park.
(2) In response, N. Koreans moved in, kicked out remaining S. Korean personnel, shut down the facilities. Of course, they also confiscated everything on site.
It is likely that N. Korea's 2nd Corps will move into the now vacated area.
My understanding is that 1) South Korea protested the missile launch 2) the Norks responded by expelling all South Koreans 3) the South Koreans responded to that by shutting down power to the complex which,presumably,would force them to cease production.
I get the feeling one of these days we going wake up with Japan flag over North Korea
If things go wrong, you will find more flag in Pyongyang. S. Korean, U.S., Chinese, and Russian flags will be there first before Japanese one show up.
During the Cold War, the Luftwaffe had a Pershing Missile battalion stationed in the Netherlands (!) with warheads under nominal U.S. control. In 1975 Germany was one TWIX away from being a nuclear power.
Back to the future. Korea was a Japanese colony from around 1900 to 1945. We screwed up the treaty ending the War.
Hey Tiger over the weekend I watching Nicholas and Alexanra about Russia Tsar movie came out in early 1970s on TCM on demand
Just wonder what Dowager Empress Marie telling son Nicky stay out of Asia and leave Buddiest alone
She saying really snarky very racist too
Yes, I remember those.
We had to fight Germany tooth and nail to place them, literally suggesting that we could pull forces back if we couldn’t protect them.
And the demonstrations were pretty frequent.
That type of emplacement required using the existing communication, radar, and logistics emplacements.
Which are all gone now with the demise of the soviet union
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