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Kaesong Park, NK, has free trade or MFN status with the US doesn’t it?
Imagine all of the allies that haven’t been given that yet
Yeah, empty bluster? I don’t know. Kim Jung Ill never went quite this far.
If nutter son can go this far in bluster, how far is he willing to go in reality?
I read yesterday that NK’s revenues from the Kaesong plants is 2 billion per year. Apart from wages of the South Korean employees, what revenues accrue to the SK government? What does is cost to run this place?
Seems like the pugnacious one is slowly, incrementally, drip by drip, ratcheting up the tensions and stakes much like two young boys hit each other on the shoulder, each raising the force of their blows until one of them knocks hell out of the other. Darn, that was a long sentence. Who’ll be the first to flinch?
I believe you are right. Chia, Jr. is close to the tipping point or already is too far out on the limb.
Our joint exercise Foal Eagle ends about 30 April, so look for more and more extreme antics by NK until then.
No ammunition has been released to NK ground units.
Somethings cooking on the China-NK border, a Chinese fighter penetrated NK airspace and overflew most of the border on 21 March. However, most of the Chinese ground units that moved to the border, have pulled back to their garrisons.
China delivered no crude to NK in February or March, for the first time in 39 months, looks like a pressure play.
If NK starts up their mothballed reactors, it would take many years to produce weapons plutonium, no threat there. NK only has enough plutonium for about 6 weapons and their blast yields todate have been very weak.
One thing of note, all the NK war posturing to date has been made by civil, government officials, not the NK military officials.
When NK has done that in the past, it has allowed NK deniability and an easy way to walk backwards as they can claim that the government was just preparing the people for martial law.