Posted on 12/26/2010 9:17:05 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
Defence ministers of South Korea and China will hold a meeting in Beijing in February, a report said Sunday, amid high military tension following North Korea's deadly attack on a border island.
Kim Kwan-Jin and his Chinese counterpart Liang Guanglie will discuss regional security issues including the North's military provocations, Yonhap news agency reported, quoting a defence ministry official.
"The two will largely discuss how to further revitalise military cooperation between the two countries, but they will also discuss regional security issues like the North's attack on the Cheonan warship and bombing on Yeonpyeong island," Yonhap quoted the official as saying.
The official was referring to the sinking of a South Korean warship and deaths of 46 sailors in March which Seoul has blamed on the North and the deadly shelling of a frontier island that left four South Koreans -- including two civilians -- dead in November.
Seoul's defence ministry declined to comment.
Kim took office earlier this month after his predecessor Kim Tae-Young quit to take responsibility for the military's perceived feeble response to the shelling.
Pyongyang said it was retaliating for a South Korean firing drill that dropped shells into waters that it claims are North Korean territory.
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Maybe South Korea is asking permission to unify the country.(OPLAN 5029)
China is more likely to have key inside people in NK that could orchestrate a coup while providing a cover story “attempted assassination from foreign devils”. This would let China and SK set up a puppet government that would allow NK to be demilitarized “forever” and institute reforms that would raise the standard of living enough so that people aren’t starving to death until the two Koreas can be reunited without breaking the SK bank.
SK would have to promise China to remove US bases (ah, let’em keep a naval base) and to never militarize the northern part of the country.
It might be a decade or more before the two countries are officially united (even under two systems) but even China would benefit from this plan.
Just my thought.
I think that you are on target. With Unification comes a very financial cost on South Korea.The costs of Korean reunification have been estimated by some sources to be as high as $2–3 trillion, about five or six times South Korea’s gross domestic product. Thus, the overall burden of Korean reunification might be as much as ten times greater than that of German reunification.
South Korea would also have to build North Korea’s basic infrastucture from scratch not to mention securing all of their nuclear weapons and weapons factories.
I am sure China would love to help out in that latter part to keep them away from SK. Might even be a part of any such arrangement.
Heck, they might even demand that their companies get equal treatment on contracting to build that infrastructure!
China is the big dog out there after all.
Very good point.
btw, only China could offer such loans to a united Korea at this time. Makes more sense than building those empty cities too.
When the peninsula is united and the US troops leave, it will fall more under China’s influence anyways. It would make sense for China to do this and they do normally think more long-term than we do.
I really do think that China will have a influence but a minor one. The South Koreans have been out ally for 60 years. The Chinese want the peninsula stabilised only because they their eyes set on other places(Spratley Islands and the South China Sea)
If those talks do not include: “If you keep supporting Kim and North Korea....the US will slap a %50 tariff on all Communist Chinese goods”.....this will go nowhere.
Only a fool or a free trader trust the Communist Chinese....who are supporting and bank-rolling the NoKo’s
Why talk to the monkey when you can deal directly with the organ grinder?
I would assume they have word of assassination attempts in the planning, and have already been weeding out inner circle KPA and KWP people who are suspect. I suspect Yodok Reeducation Camp has some new residents these days. I am sure the two prime despots of Kim Dynasty know they are both on borrowed time and have beads on them. I read it in Chia Pet's eyes as he glanced over at the Boy at the big mass parade on the occasion of the autumn kangaroo KWP elevation of the Brat, as well as the "reelection" of El Supremo; he was cross checking junior's interface with the eldery military whom he will have to deal with and get under control. I imagine his game will be to make them play against each other, playing favorites, and maybe even emboldening some of them to attacks on the South as a result.
I have also heard that there are factions inside North Korea that are attempting an assasination of Kim Jong Il. He may be living on borrowed time
I think the Chinese are tired of North Korea and its tiffy tanthums and getting ready to pull the plug
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