Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick.
Posted on 10/04/2014 6:41:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1
Shoot, until this they were still quibbling over the set up of the tables for the ceasefire talks from the Korean War, weren’t they?
-— North Korea and South Korea are about to have high level talks. Check it out, -—
Wow!
Colonel Mustard in the library with a candlestick.
pretty much
Didn’t they dump the official cease-fire a few months ago and threaten to restart the war?
Now #2 is in South Korea?
Something definitely happened.
Maybe it has something to do with all the squabbling they have been having with China. Has the pressure from China finally had an effect?
Some of the headlines concerning North Korean and Chinese relations this year.....
some of the Chosun Ilbo headlines going back....
N.Korea Sends Chilly National Day Message to China
N.Korean FM to Tour Southeast Asia
N.Korea Slams ‘Spineless’ China
N.Koreans Feel Closer to China Than S.Korea
China Still Sitting on Oil Shipments to N.Korea
China Halts Oil Shipments to N.Korea
China Holds Up Iranian Oil Shipment to N.Korea
China Restricts Trade with N.Korea
China Exports to N.Korea Fall
N.Korea Is Running Out of Options
European NGOs Look at Pulling Out of N.Korea
UN Offices in N.Korea Struggle After Banking Sanctions
How Serious Is China in Cracking Down on N.Korea?
China Probes N.Korea’s Bank Accounts
Bank of China Cuts Ties with N.Korean Bank
China Moves on N.Korean Money Laundering
U.S. Imposes Sanctions on N.Korea’s Trade Bank
UN Security Council Sanctions 3 N.Korean Firms
China Has Few Words for Meeting with N.Korea
N.Korea Fires Missile from Chinese Border Area
try this one:
Chinese Oil Embargo Paralyzes N.Korean Army (from july)
“China shipped no crude oil at all to North Korea from January to May, according to the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency in Beijing”
Rofl
and it looks like the first time the North seems to really want to talk too.
China’s pressure is really pushing them hard.
Hopefully they won’t just beg for food and cash.
-— China’s pressure is really pushing them hard. -—
How are they pressuring NK, considering that they’re already living on a grass diet?
did you not see #84?
Those are all headlines from this year. Relations between China and NK are bad. China has been subsidizing NK for many years and now the Pyongyang elites are finding life very difficult.
Dennis Rodman is now in charge
That is hilarious.
China does not want a flourishing capitalistic country on its border. They may be willing to let the Kim dynasty lose power, but they would probably insist that Korea remain divided, with a more mainstream Communist regime in power in the North, perhaps modeled on its own regime.
Your memory of the 10 struggling years after unification are different than mine. Even today the economy of old east / west are different. The old east is a drain on the old west. Communism and communist ideology doest end in a year. It takes generations. It has taken years of slow steps to get us as socialistic as we are.
Click on my screen name and look for the thread from the overnite....we discussed it.
October surprise. Obama is going to take credit!
Actually he does. He did some top secret state department stuff back in the day.
Probably did not get the details, but I am sure he got “wind of something.”
Unless Obama admits to assassinating the short fat kid, I am not sure where could take credit for any of this.
Well, he might not, but his sycophants in the media will make tenuous connection that behind the scenes the administration was working to that end...of course with no proof
Look at his decorations......
Blue (top rows) 5
Green (mid rows) 5
Red (bottom rows) 6
Rather than stars or oakleaves, the recipient recieves a new identical decoration. That is decoration creep to be sure the chest is covered in glory
(from my post earlier today but it seems to prove your point)
The press would say that NK collapsed under the O administration.
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