Posted on 04/29/2017 6:38:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Chinese paper mocks North Korea's tech prowess after failed ballistic missile launch
China's semi-official Global Times newspaper criticized an ongoing "game of chicken" between North Korea and Washington but also knocked Pyongyang's tech talents.
Early Saturday, the reclusive communist nation launched yet another missile, presumably in a new display of force amid a verbal war of words with President Donald Trump. However, the missile exploded seconds after liftoff, and officials said the failed test involved a short-range, non-nuclear missile able to hit Seoul but not Japan.
"The test's failure shows that the country's missile technology is not mature, and that the missile-launching vehicle paraded on the Day of the Sun not long ago may have only been a mock-up," the English-language Chinese publication said in a commentary.
Moreover, it contends North Korea's missile tests are not just for research and development purposes but part of "an outdated confrontational mentality" demonstrated by the hermit regime.
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Kim’s a man of his word ... another weakly launch.
I understand that N Korean coal is again being shipped and unloaded in China.
They’re too busy trying not to die of starvation every day.
Probably still getting diseases that have been eradicated for a century in the western world.
they have NO access to information except what they are told.
Unlike Iraq, these people would be THRILLED when they started eating food regularly and be able to come into the 21, well at least the 20th, to begin with, century.
I dont want a ground war with American troops but I think even under Chinese control these 25 million folks would have a better life.
“Didn’t China get its’ missile technology by bribing Bill Clinton?”
A key part of it was given to them by Bill Clinton. Then he has Madeline Albright sign that dumb nuclear deal that the Norks reneged on right away.
It’s a trick.
This could, indeed, have “fallout” on China.
This kind of talk coming from China (’s leadership) is rather interesting.
They’re sending some pretty good signals to the boy Kim.
But it is worth noting that North Korea has yet to conduct its sixth nuclear test. It staged missile tests on April 16 and 29, both of which failed.
If we really are hacking the missile launches that is one thing, but what if we can also hack the nuke test?
This would present the Norks with a horrible dilemma. You push the button on a nuke and nothing happens. How long do you wait to decide it is a misfire instead of just a hangfire?
What if we can intercept the signal and wait until they go in to retrieve the device? Then we push our button. Could wipe out the entire Nork nuke program in one sweep.
Or is it legitimately going 600 feet in the air, then malfunctioning?
I am not a missile expert but I am kind of suspicious of those short-distance high-altitude launches. I was wondering if they are trying to find a way to use their nuclear ballistic missile to hit somewhere in S. Korea beating all missiles defense currently in place. One of the argument against THAAD missile defense was that existing missiles to target S. Korea is of shorter range Scud variety which can be handled by missile defense already in place. If they can launch it to high altitude while traveling a short distance, their nuclear missile can beat all MD system and still hit targets in S. Korea.
do not trust China or UN, Trump will play em as they do us
Fat kid with the bad haircut loses “face” big time.
Heck - the Hyundai of the ‘80s had more tech than the NORKs are using....
Bingo. If the South took over the North, China would have a genuine democracy on a broad border. NK is and will be a buffer for China, cannon fodder.
China doesnt not care ......they want to see North Korea obliterating Seoul
US generals admit they CAN’T stop North Korea obliterating Seoul, South Korea
they cannot stop North Korea striking Seoul with a horrifying bombardment of 4,000 artillery missiles. One of the most populated cities in the world, could be destroyed in minutes.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-04-03/china-obliged-defend-north-korea-under-friendship-treaty
2017:
China is not obliged to help defend North Korea as the latter’s development of nuclear weapons has breached a mutual defence pact, Chinese diplomatic and military observers told the South China Morning Post (SCMP).
China and North Korea signed a mutual aid and cooperation treaty in 1961 as they sought to mount a united front against Western powers. Renewed in 1981 and 2001, the treaty is valid until 2021.
The Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty stipulates that one country must immediately take military and all other necessary measures to oppose any country or coalition of countries that might attack either nation. But the treaty also says that both nations should safeguard peace and security.
“It is hard to say how China would assist North Korea militarily in case of war, since North Korea is developing nuclear weapons, an act that might have already breached the treaty between the two nations,” said retired Chinese naval colonel Li Jie.
In the case of Pyongyang initiating an attack, China would not be obliged to get involved, said Professor Cai Jian of Fudan University.
Mr Antony Wong Dong, a Macau- based military analyst, said that when the treaty was last renewed, China warned North Korea that it must take responsibility for its own behaviour.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-not-obliged-to-defend-north-korea-from-an-attack
A change from the 2013 position.
The next step?: Interpret the treaty as a protection of North Korea and not a protection of the Kim family and act accordingly.
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