Posted on 05/01/2017 12:52:29 PM PDT by blam
A Chinese town near the border with North Korea is "urgently" recruiting Korean-Chinese interpreters, stirring speculation that China is bracing for an emergency situation involving its nuclear-armed neighbor.
The Oriental Daily, a Hong Kong-based news outlet published the story on Apr. 27, including a photo of a Chinese government document ordering the town of Dandong to recruit an unspecified number of Korean-Chinese interpreters to work at 10 departments in the town, including border security, public security, trade, customs and quarantine.
The document did not specify the reason behind the unusual, large-scale recruiting. But experts and local citizens said the move indicated that China was bracing for a possible military clash between the United States and North Korea.
This might trigger a huge exodus of North Koreans to border towns in China.
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(Excerpt) Read more at koreatimes.co.kr ...
China can have 500K troops on the DPRK border so that not a mouse crosses.
There will be no press around either to watch what is going on.
Seems to be what’s happening. Lots of pictures filtering in from China heavily patrolling its border towns, mobilizing lots of hardware, etc. Snapshots of nuclear detection vehicles roaming around. They’re taking this very, very seriously.
Very interesting post, thank you.
China does not want a couple million Nork peasants crossing into China.
Neither does South Korea....But, there will be if there is any sort of conflict.
I think China is preparing to prevent that.
South Korea has no choice. If they want to reunify, that is.
Sounds like something Obama would do.
“China was bracing for a possible military clash between the United States and North Korea.”
OR
China was bracing for a possible military clash between the PLA and North Korea.
Joint operation to remove the “fat little crazy kid” ?
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