Evil Flare
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North Korea has a a point ....
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Originally Posted by Nomenclature
one may also question SK's policy of kicking a maddog in its face by conducting such exercises during a leadership transition in the North.
That's a typical failure of democratic system, especially when there are strong foreign influences and weak domestic capabilities.
War games are saber rattling events. Lobbing artillery shells is the actual kicking. Of course, I fully expect the Chinese fanboys here willing to reverse the meanings of the acts to make NKR the victim. Might as well go and argue that SKR and its people being prosperous and much more free than NKR qualifies as 'kicking'...It's a question of perspective.
The maritime border between North and South Korea is disputed. South Korea did indeed fire into the disputed area despite North's warnings.
From the SK perspective they're only firing into their own waters but NK of course looks upon it very differently.
Anyway, even if the shelling from the North is just a reaction to the South Korean exercises, they went clearly too far by attacking civilian facilities. Although one may also question SK's policy of kicking a maddog in its face by conducting such exercises during a leadership transition in the North.
War games are saber rattling events. Lobbing artillery shells is the actual kicking. Of course, I fully expect the Chinese fanboys here willing to reverse the meanings of the acts to make NKR the victim. Might as well go and argue that SKR and its people being prosperous and much more free than NKR qualifies as 'kicking'...
I wonder if the North Korean soldiery are provoking a war, hoping that they will lose it and their current rulers in the process. They are dirt poor, and a sizable fraction of the populace must realize that the West or China have more to offer. What have they got to lose?
Setting aside who provoked whom, I think China needs to reel in North Korea. The issue is not so much South Korea or the US but, if Japan feels that North Korea is getting out of control, it may reverse its pacifist stance and become more warlike.
That would not be good for anybody, including China.
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You want South to go berserk and declare war on north? That would have been possible had DPRK not been a nuclear weapons state thanks to nuke black market. Most people think that those who use diplomacy are weak, little realizing that war is also on their cards if they are forced to.
I will however agree with you that South Korea is not sufficiently armed in quantity to crush the North despite having qualitative advantage. This is the disadvantage of being a US ally. One gets latest development infrastructure-wise but remains a dependent lackey in defence.
North will never release its KIA figures during the ROK retaliatory firing correctly to show itself superior; denial and being secretive is the biggest weapon for absolutist regimes which is why even though they might not be strong enough but their secrecy keeps people guessing. This is the logic that North uses against South and the rest of the world.
Setting aside who provoked whom, I think China needs to reel in North Korea. The issue is not so much South Korea or the US but, if Japan feels that North Korea is getting out of control, it may reverse its pacifist stance and become more warlike.
That would not be good for anybody, including China.
SEOUL (Reuters) South Korea plans to sharply increase spending on defense next year, local media reported, as regional tensions mount following a North Korean artillery attack and differences between China and the United States.
The Korea Economic Daily said the government had proposed a 5.8 percent increase in the 2011 defense budget to about $27 billion to buy more self-propelled artillery and fighter-bombers, far more than the 3.6 percent rise this year.
but it'll be the worst of all for japan. they can go warlike right this minute if they wanted to. the question is, are they constrained by certain arrangements regarding this or not.
It would be nearly impossible for Japan to change its "pacifist constitution" now. The way it was written (by the Americans), makes it very difficult to change it.