Re: North Korea threatens military strike against South Ko...

[Guest guest]

I've been hearing that we should get China to pressure North Korea into behaving itself. China supplies most of North Korea's oil and much of its food. I see a problem with that though.

The US cut off supplies of crap metal and along with other nations cut oil supplies to Japan in protest over its military expansion into China and the brutality it was inflicting on the people there. Faced with less than a year's supply of oil for its navy and vital merchant fleet, Japan went to war.

It is possible that too much pressure will make North Korea strike. They have no real chance of taking South Korea or of successfully resisting an invasion, but they could do a lot of harm in the mean time. They've got lots of artillery that can reach Seoul and some ballistic missiles. NK certainly could cause a panic in South Korea is they so chose. Add in the probability that they have chemical and biological weapons and the effect would be increased. A chance also exists that they have sleepers and other infiltrated agents in South Korea and Japan. After all, stories are still spread about NK agents kidnapping women from South Korea and Japan and taking them back to NK.

We'll just have to wait and see.

The only real winner from all of this will be China. China has basically following the same path the US did prior to WWI and through to WWII. It kept its economy growing but fairly sane, built up industry and supplied the world. For the US, by the time WWII came along, we were the global power. China is now getting into that position and it will only be helped by so many of the economic plans being laid for the US which will harm us from within.

We're going to learn pretty quickly that China isn't our ally, but a competitor for global resources and a nation that will push with its power much as we have done for decades. I wonder how this country will take it the first time China gives us a hard shove to get its way?

In a message dated 5/27/2009 7:24:16 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

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[Guest guest]

" It is possible that too much pressure will make North Korea strike. They have

no real chance of taking South Korea or of successfully resisting an invasion,

but they could do a lot of harm in the mean time. They've got lots of artillery

that can reach Seoul and some ballistic missiles. NK certainly could cause a

panic in South Korea is they so chose. Add in the probability that they have

chemical and biological weapons and the effect would be increased. A chance also

exists that they have sleepers and other infiltrated agents in South Korea and

Japan. After all, stories are still spread about NK agents kidnapping women from

South Korea and Japan and taking them back to NK.

" We'll just have to wait and see.

" The only real winner from all of this will be China. "

I find it hard to believe that China would turn on North Korea. China and North

Korea are in the same predicament in a manner of speaking. Both have parts of

their own countries who have broken away. China cannot go against North Korea's

attempt to get back South Korea and then turn around and plead a case to get

Taiwan back into the fold militarily.

As for what North Korea will do, it could indeed strike, but I do not see the

sense in it. Lobbing over one missile or its entire aresenal would be enough

excuse for the US to utterly destory North Korea's military, and then where

would North Korea be? Its citizens would turn on it.

The whole thing does not make any sense except that the brinkmanship makes North

Korea's leader look good in the eyes of its own people.

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