[anarchist23]

The Chinese army has reportedly deployed 150,000 troops to the North Korean border to prepare for pre-emptive attacks after the United States dropped airstrikes on Syria.
President Donald Trump's missile strike on Syria on Friday was widely interpreted as a warning to North Korea.
And now China, left shocked by the air strikes, has deployed medical and backup units from the People's Liberation Army forces to the Yalu River, Korea's Chosun.com reported.
The troops have been dispatched to handle North Korean refugees and 'unforeseen circumstances', such as the prospect of preemptive attacks on North Korea, the news agency said.
Meanwhile, the US Navy has moved the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier strike group from Singapore to North Korea after the country conducted more missile testing.

China has deployed medical and backup units from the People's Liberation Army forces to the Yalu River following President Donald Trump's missile strikes on Syria last week
China's top nuclear envoy arrived in Seoul Monday for talks on the North Korean threat, as the United States sent the naval strike group to the region and signalled it may act to shut down Pyongyang's weapons program.
Speculation of an imminent nuclear test is brewing as the North marks major anniversaries including the 105th birthday of its founding leader on Saturday - sometimes celebrated with a demonstration of military might.
Wu Dawei, China's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Affairs, met with his South Korean counterpart on Monday to discuss the nuclear issue.
The talks come shortly after Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a summit at which he pressed Pyongyang's key ally to do more to curb the North's nuclear ambitions.
'(We) are prepared to chart our own course if this is something China is just unable to coordinate with us,' US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said after the summit.
He added however that Beijing had indicated a willingness to act on the issue.
'We need to allow them time to take actions,' Tillerson said, adding that Washington had no intention of attempting to remove the regime of Kim Jong-Un.
The meeting between Xi and Trump came on the heels of yet another missile test by the North, which fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday.
The US Navy strike group Carl Vinson cancelled a planned trip to Australia this weekend, heading toward the Korean peninsula instead, in a move that will raise tensions in the region.

The talks come shortly after Trump hosted Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a summit at which he pressed Pyongyang's key ally to do more to curb the North's nuclear ambitions
Seoul and Washington are also conducting joint military drills, an annual exercise which is seen by the North as a practice for war.
Pyongyang is on a quest to develop a long-range missile capable of hitting the US mainland with a nuclear warhead, and has so far staged five nuclear tests, two of them last year.

Satellite imagery analysis suggests it could be preparing for a sixth, with US intelligence officials warning that Pyongyang could be less than two years away from its goal of striking the continental United States.

China, the US, South Korea and Japan all have dedicated envoys who meet at regular intervals to discuss the North Korean issue: a legacy of the long-stalled six-party process that also involved Pyongyang and Moscow. The North quit the negotiations in 2009.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z4dvXXtqKL




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[Frollein]

Do you think I need to stock up on popcorn?

They say NK is already able to bomb California.

... as if that was a bad thing.

[Zagadka]

They say NK is already able to bomb California.

... as if that was a bad thing.

Heeeeeeeeeeeyyyyy

"China, the US, South Korea and Japan all have dedicated envoys who meet at regular intervals to discuss the North Korean issue"

That sums it up. It is a contrived issue fucked around with by China and the US.

[Frollein]

"China, the US, South Korea and Japan all have dedicated envoys who meet at regular intervals to discuss the North Korean issue"

You know, war is just the continuation of discussion by other means.

[Potemkin]

You know, war is just the continuation of discussion by other means.

Indeed. To speak is to act, and to act is to speak. Osama bin Laden did nothing but speak - to his minions, to his backers, to his enemies - yet he was held responsible for committing the 9/11 attacks, despite having himself personally 'done' nothing. To speak is to act. And every time the US drops bombs on some Third World shit-hole, it is sending a 'message', both to its enemies and to its allies - dropping bombs is a speech-act. As Clausewitz said, war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means. And by the same token, diplomacy is the continuation of war by other means.

[Suntzu]

I sure hope we learned something from our last little adventure in Korea.

[Frollein]

Did you know that you can get Clausewitz's On War as a free ebook? (at least in German)

[fuser]

At project Gutenberg it's available in English too. Although I own a hard copy, the translation is really fucking bad. Another reminder to me that Wordsworth publication does the best translation.

[Rapperson]

No nuclear test on the day of the sun. What's up with that?

[MistyTiger]

Ohhh shit! I feel like the US is now run by loose canons. Do we have to bomb every country we feel is a threat? OMG. Someone needs to fire all the bullies who want to burn and destroy countries with our big toys.

[Rancid]

BOMB NORTH KOREA!!! HELL YEA!!

WAR WAR WAR!!!

[skinster]

Great Satan needs to chill out.

[stephen50right]

My guess at this point is that if North Korea fires a missile in the direction of Japan, with a trajectory that indicates it will land close to Japan, as they have done in the recent past...the US will blast it out of the sky. Which means almost any missile fired over the Sea of Japan.

The US will basically force North Korea to make their missile tests over the Yellow Sea...and that would make China very unhappy.

[ThirdTerm]

Speculation of an imminent nuclear test is brewing as the North marks major anniversaries including the 105th birthday of its founding leader on Saturday - sometimes celebrated with a demonstration of military might.

Probably the North Korean dictator blinked first and there was no nuclear test to mark the 105th birthday of the nation's founder, which would have triggered cruise missile strikes against nuclear facilities. Instead, Comrade Kim ordered these workers at the nuclear test site to play volleyball, according to the photos taken by a commercial satellite. Trump's strategy to intimidate Comrade Kim seems to be working.

With tension mounting between Pyongyang and Washington, analysts had thought they would see activity suggesting preparations for an underground explosion at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site and were not expecting what the photos, taken on Sunday by a commercial satellite, revealed.

“We see that at three locations in the facility – in the main administrative area, at the support area, at the command centre and at the guard barracks near the command centre - they have volleyball games going on,” said Joe Bermudez, an expert with 38 North, an independent North Korea monitoring project based in Washington.

Bermudez offered two possible explanations -- that the test site could be going into “a standby mode” or that the games were intended to confuse observers, given North Korea knows that Punggye-ri is under constant observation.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-new ... 6lbXJ.html

[Rancid]

The US will basically force North Korea to make their missile tests over the Yellow Sea...and that would make China very unhappy.

Perfect, China needs to pay the price for propping up that failed state.

[anarchist23]

In an unusual move, the entire US Senate is being called to the White House for a briefing on North Korea.

Washington has become increasingly concerned at North Korean missile and nuclear tests and threats to its neighbours and the US.
The briefing, involving 100 senators as well as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Defence Secretary James Mattis, is being held on Wednesday.
China, North Korea's main ally, has called for restraint from all sides.
China's call came in a phone conversation between President Xi Jinping and President Donald Trump on Sunday.
Mr Xi urged all parties to "maintain restraint and avoid actions that would increase tensions", according to the Chinese foreign ministry.
Why Beijing should lead on North Korean crisis
For his part, Mr Trump said North Korea's "continued belligerence" was destabilising the Korean peninsula.
White House officials regularly go to Congress to brief on national security matters, but it is unusual for the whole Senate to go to the White House.
Alongside Mr Tillerson and Gen Mattis will be National Intelligence Director Dan Coats and Gen Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Questioned by reporters at his regular briefing, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer referred further inquiries to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell.
Aides, quoted by Reuters, say the House of Representatives is seeking a similar briefing on North Korea.
Washington says a flotilla, led by the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, is expected to arrive off the peninsula within days, despite conflicting messages last week on its exact whereabouts.
Mr Trump has also told United Nations Security Council ambassadors, meeting at the White House, that the UN must be ready to impose new sanctions on North Korea.
The US is pursuing a multi-pronged strategy to make its point on North Korea, the BBC's Gary O'Donoghue in Washington says.
First it wants the UN to tighten sanctions even further, and to ensure those in place are properly enforced.
Secondly, it is attempting to put fresh pressure on China to rein in its communist neighbour. The third aspect is the sending of an aircraft carrier to the Korean peninsula - making clear military action is an option.
North Korean rhetoric
North Korean state media said on Sunday the country's forces were "combat-ready to sink" the Carl Vinson.
The ruling Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun called the carrier a "gross animal".
North Korea has promised to press ahead with missile tests despite Mr Trump's warnings and experts say it may be preparing for another nuclear test, in defiance of UN resolutions.
However, a North Korean ballistic missile test on 16 April failed within seconds of launch, US experts said.
Washington is concerned that Pyongyang may develop the ability to place a nuclear bomb on a missile capable of reaching the US.
Beijing is worried about the possibility of all-out conflict on the peninsula, which could lead to the collapse of the North Korean regime under its mercurial leader Kim Jong-un.
China fears this could cause a sizeable refugee problem and lead to an American presence up to the Chinese border.

BBC

[Rancid]

I want to be strapped on the first missile that gets launched towards Pyongyang. No better way to die! I will yell "DEATH FROM ABOVE!!!" As I crash into that god awful ugly ass unfinished Hotel that Igor thinks is an engineering marvel.

[Bulaba Khan Jones]

You better put on that dang cowboy hat, boy! Rancid is a hunk, who cares?

[Political Interest]

America, trying to dominate a part of the world that does not belong to it.

Asia belongs to Asians.

America has no place in the Far East.

[anarchist23]

A US submarine has arrived in South Korea, amid worries of another North Korean missile or nuclear test.
8.00 hrs GMT. 25/4/17

The missile-armed USS Michigan is set to join an incoming group of warships led by aircraft carrier Carl Vinson.
North Korea is celebrating its army's 85th founding anniversary on Tuesday. It marked the event with a large-scale firing drill, South Korea said.
Tensions have risen in the area in recent weeks, with the US and North Korea exchanging heated rhetoric.
Experts fear Pyongyang could be planning more tests - it has marked some key anniversaries in the past with nuclear tests or missile launches.
■ Why Beijing should lead on North Korean crisis
■ North Korea 'detains American citizen'
■ What can the outside world do about N Korea?
However, South Korea's defence ministry said "no unusual development had been detected".
Instead, the North conducted a large live-fire drill around the city of Wonsan, South Korea said.
"Our military is closely monitoring the North Korean military's movement," the Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said.
North Korea conducted a failed ballistic missile test on 16 April, prompting US Vice-President Mike Pence to warn it not to "test" President Donald Trump.
In an unusual move, the entire US Senate has been asked to attend a briefing on North Korea on Wednesday at the White House.
The USS Michigan docked at South Korea's Busan port on Tuesday, in what it called a routine visit. It is a nuclear-powered submarine carrying 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles and 60 special operations troops and mini-subs, reported the South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.

BBC
25/4/17