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schwa
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 4:16 am Post subject: |
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Rteacher, you still ragging on this?
News just in: US media hype cycle has moved on to other things.
War here this year was about as imminent as it has always been, ie highly improbable. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Thu Apr 25, 2013 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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I don't just go by the U.S. news cycle. I think most articles that I've linked to are from Reuters, which is an international news agency with its headquarters in London, UK ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters
Whenever I come across an article that I think has some relevance to what is still an ongoing dangerous situation, I'll post it here. Hopefully, cooler heads will always prevail and war won't ever break out again on the Korean peninsula (at least until World War 3...) |
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Rteacher
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Ya-ta Boy
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Posted: Sat Apr 27, 2013 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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"The reason things calmed down over the past 10 days or so ... was not bluster fatigue setting in, or not deciding strategically to tone things down now after having been on the rampage for so long, but more to catch their adversaries off their guard," said Sung-Yoon Lee, Professor of Korean Studies at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in the United States. |
IMO, things quieted down over there because the Boston Marathon bombing took all the attention and attention is the point of Nork bluster. |
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Deja
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:17 am Post subject: |
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^^
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Deja
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 6:19 am Post subject: |
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^^
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005 Location: Western MA, USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 28, 2013 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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Getting attention through bluster may be NK's point since their blackmail schemes have always worked to some extent and are now backed by some nuke capability, but if the U.S. and South Korea actually dare (like they've boldly talked) to break that cycle by not rewarding their bad behavior it's not a sure thing that war won't break out.
Of course, there's a lot of pressure (political and economic) on the U.S. and SK to give in as far as possible - at least one more time... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/the-upside-of-giving-in-to-north-korea-s-blackmail.html |
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akcrono
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:23 am Post subject: |
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And still, no one is caring. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003 Location: Yap
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 3:27 am Post subject: |
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From your linked article: "Tuesday's statement was softer than the bellicose rhetoric Pyongyang unleashed with regularity during two months of larger-scale joint military drills by the allies that ended one week ago."
Yawn.
Rteacher: What exactly is your agenda with this thread you keep pumping up? |
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Rteacher
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Things may have cooled off significantly in terms of an imminent major attack launched by either side - especially after NK just recently withdrew their missiles - but it's still worth keeping track of threats, etc. since even a small-scale battle could still potentially ignite a bigger war. If significant progress is made toward making peace on the Korean peninsula I would certainly post that here as well - I don't see another Korean war as being inevitable at this point...
In this article, Chuck Hagel states that despite the apparent reduction in tensions, the U.S. remains prepared for "any contingency"... http://news.yahoo.com/u-south-korea-vow-maintain-north-korea-deterrent-183333569.html |
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