Posted on 04/09/2017 9:41:21 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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China Massed 150 Thousand Troops at Sino-N. Korean Border for Crisis in Korean Peninsula
China Times reported on Apr. 9 that China's military deployed two army groups, about150 thousand troops, at Sino-N. Korean border to guard against an unexpected situation, while troops of S. Korea and U.S. have been conducting joint exercises since last month, including decapitation operation to remove Kim Jong-un.
According to China Times Online in Taiwan, the Northern Military District which is in charge of defending North Eastern region of China ordered full battle preparation to all land, sea, and air units under its command, and massed 150 thousand troops out of 430 thousand troops which makes up 16th, 23rd, 39th, and 40th Army Groups.
The news site reported that the Northern District took this measure in response to Key Resolve and Foal Eagle exercises by S. Korean and U.S. troops, which continues until the end of this month, whose scenario is to eliminate N. Korean leadership including Kim Jong-un and destroy N. Korea's WMDs when a crisis breaks out in Korean Peninsula.
The lead units for rapid response to a N. Korean crisis are 39th Army Group and 40th Army Group whose command headquarters are at Yingkou and Jinzhou in Liaoning Province. The 39th Army Group is a heavy mechanized unit and the 40th is the rapid deployment force.
Furthermore, they deployed a new Kongjing-500 early warning aircraft to the border to beef up aerial surveillance.
In addition, Dongfend-31A missiles, 12 Dongfeng-03 ballstic missiles with a range of 2,800km, and 24 Dongfeng-21 "Carrier-killer" missiles are aimed at N. Korea, United States Forces Korea and Japan and are ready to be fired.
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To keep the North Koreans out?
In two years I was somehow in four Team Spirit annual exercises.
I was wishfully thinking the same thing.
I have a feeling we’re wrong.
This is ugly news.
Did Xi tell President Trump that China would take care of North Korea?
If this is true no wonder Trump did not serve Xi a Big Mac.
WowWowWow.
I’ll bet those troops are not there to go into NK .... but focused on SK and US troops in SK.
The PLA is giving its political leadership deployable options and is reminding everyone that the US is poking, however good the reason, in their backyard.
This in now way no how is ugly news. It is absofriggingly awesome news.
Those troops are to stop the North Koreans from fleeing into China after they send a wet works team to take out Kim Jong Un and the country falls into temporary chaos. The whole Syria strike was to send a big message to China and N Korea that Trump is not a pushover like Obama.
That’s my prediction anyway...
Maybe to pressure the NORKs.
Have you looked at Chinese media reaction to the Xi visit? Extremely positive. This is not bad in any sense of the word, bad. It is a mind blowing change in US/China relations. It is an overt threat to fat boy. Wait till we deal with Iran. China will be involved. Splitsies are fair aren’t they.
About time they exercise those troops; they must keep them indoors through Democrat administrations which means they have been cooped up with nothing to do for the last 8 years, same as all our homeless people.
Here is a crazy idea I have never heard anyone mention.
Would China be a more comfortable neighbor to South Korea than North Korea has been ?
What would we — or S. Korea, Japan, Philippines, etc. — lose if we encouraged China to annex North Korea and dismantle the cult that is the NK regime ? Especially if they gave up all claims to Taiwan, the South China Sea and those Islands in exchange for our not objecting to the annexation.
Hopefully, Trump will work with Xi to restrain / ‘fix’ N.Korea
Working with China to remove the NKorean leadership would allow for a possible future for the PEOPLE of NKorea
I would suggest air dropping radios or cheap video receiving devices in order to enlighten the people of NKorea to what’s going on in the world without the filter of NKorean leadership
Once enlightened, the people would be more open to a possible future without their ‘benevolent dictator’... as it stands, they’re probably so brainwashed they would fight on in his memory
Now India should do some teasing at its Indo-China border.
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