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World shudders at North Korea power transition
« on: September 29, 2010, 06:30:38 PM »
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=209109

North Korea's tyrant, Kim Jong-il, reportedly has made his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, a four-star general, placing him in a logical position to succeed his father as leader of the broken communist nation, which has been reduced to famine, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

And the world shudders, since it is unknown just exactly what will follow.

Will the change of power signal the outbreak of turmoil? Will the 28,000 American troops stationed near the 38th parallel face the possibility of having to conduct simultaneously a relief operation for the starving population of North Korea and fight the North Korean army lining the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea?

North Korea's tyrant, Kim Jong-il, reportedly has made his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, a four-star general, placing him in a logical position to succeed his father as leader of the broken communist nation, which has been reduced to famine, according to a report from Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin.

And the world shudders, since it is unknown just exactly what will follow.

Will the change of power signal the outbreak of turmoil? Will the 28,000 American troops stationed near the 38th parallel face the possibility of having to conduct simultaneously a relief operation for the starving population of North Korea and fight the North Korean army lining the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea?
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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2010, 07:01:18 PM »
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Will the 28,000 American troops stationed near the 38th parallel face the possibility of having to conduct simultaneously a relief operation for the starving population of North Korea and fight the North Korean army lining the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea?

Why would that be the problem/responsibility of the US?
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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2010, 07:08:18 PM »
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Will the 28,000 American troops stationed near the 38th parallel face the possibility of having to conduct simultaneously a relief operation for the starving population of North Korea and fight the North Korean army lining the Demilitarized Zone with South Korea?

Why would that be the problem/responsibility of the US?
My thoughts exactly ... They would turn to China for help ... More than likely things will continue to go on as they have been even under new leadership.
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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2010, 08:39:03 PM »
It's probably just a matter of time before China gets "hungry" for more, and begins threatening and terrorizing the U.S. to remove our forces from S. Korea so that all of Korea can fall under the influence of "The Chinese Dragon" !

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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2010, 09:12:34 PM »
It's probably just a matter of time before China gets "hungry" for more, and begins threatening and terrorizing the U.S. to remove our forces from S. Korea so that all of Korea can fall under the influence of "The Chinese Dragon" !

the US and china can't attack each other. we own the businesses that employ them, plus we buy their crap. while they sell there stuff to us and provide cheap labor. neither can attack the other without harming itself.

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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2010, 10:11:26 PM »
KahanistLiberal:  "the US and china can't attack each other. we own the businesses that employ them, plus we buy their crap. while they sell there stuff to us and provide cheap labor. neither can attack the other without harming itself. "

If only the world actually worked like that.

Study history in detail, and you'll soon wake up to the fact that most modern warfare has resulted from economic competition for world markets.

Yes, nationalism, tyrannical governments, religion, and other factors all play a role in justifying the reasons nations go at each other, but in the final analysis it almost always boils down to one or more nations beginning to feel "squeezed out of the action" by a former trading partner grown too powerful and too dominant in world affairs.

I suggest reading Patrick Buchanan's current article this week on China's recent aggression against Japan and the underlying economic reasons for it.

As made clear in the article, China has totally cornered the rare earth metals market to the extent that the U.S. and others are now reliant on her "good will" just to be able to make military necessities and vital industrial equipment.

Prior to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. was selling Japan every piece of scrap iron and steel that could be found and put on a ship, as well as oil.  Japan itself has almost zero natural resources and has always depended on heavy trade and/or colonization to meet her needs.  Once Japan threatened the oil and mineral resources and rubber plantations of East Asia which the UK and U.S.A. considered "their turf", open hostility developed between the ongoing "trading partners" which eventually became a shooting war.

Business demands constant growth and expansion, which itself demands ever larger resources.  Because resources in most cases are finite, businesses must ever be on the search for trading partners (or colonies) to procure new sources of oil, timber, minerals, precious metals, etc.  As each country industrializes and modernizes, it finds itself needing to increase its trade worldwide to maintain its balance sheet.  Nations, like individuals, want to become wealthier and stronger. The rule in business is "Increase and grow your business or you are going out of business."  As the demand for vital resources to expand growth increases, nations usually spend a larger portion of their national budget on development of their military forces and weaponry, viewed as indispensable for "defending vital interests" around the world.  To solidify their position of influence and power in the world marketplace, nations will usually enter into military alliances with other powers.  This pattern continues unabated in cycles until eventually the biggest contenders for world markets bump heads competing for the same resources, and then big trouble starts, usually ending in war.  All the rest of the stuff - the religion, political ideologies, past histories, etc., is just used to fan the flames for war once the economic casus belli is already well established.

Look at Iran.  It is using Islamic Jihad/anti-Zionism ideology to motivate its masses and spread its influence throughout the Islamic world, but what it really is doing is increasing its access to resources and its market share of international trade, in order to modernize and develop high technology industries, which in turn demands that it expand the power and reach of its military.  Meanwhile it is forging military alliances and signing treaties of mutual defense with Lebanon, Syria, Russia, Turkey, and others.  Iran's actual purpose in doing all of this?  To achieve unquestioned hegemony throughout the Middle East, and by so doing become a major player on the stage of world superpowers.  The very last thing Iran could afford to have happen, at least for the present, is for Israel to disappear or be defeated.  This is because such an event would leave Iran with no "boogeyman" to use as justification for all of her actions listed above.

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Re: World shudders at North Korea power transition
« Reply #6 on: September 30, 2010, 12:29:59 AM »
Is that a concise expression of Massuhs "Boogeyman" theory?

Who will be my boogeyman?

You shall make yourself the Festival of Sukkoth for seven days, when you gather in [the produce] from your threshing floor and your vat.And you shall rejoice in your Festival-you, and your son, and your daughter, and your manservant, and your maidservant, and the Levite, and the stranger, and the orphan, and the widow, who are within your cities
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