Tuesday, December 21, 2010
SOUTH KOREA RAISES THE ANTE
is unlikely. North Korea's obsolete conventional armed forces and military equipment mean quick and near certain defeat if it wages full-scale war, and Pyongyang is well aware of its limitations.
'Biography' of Fictional Hawaiian-Chinese Detective Shows Xenophobia and Racism Can be Overcome
More Muslim Madness: Koran Written in Blood of Psychotic, Mass Murdering Despot Saddam Hussein
Only in Iraq ... or Allah-knows how many Muslim countries ... could this happen. Click here for the story.Exploring China's Kingdom of Women: Mosuo Tribe Near Tibet May be World's Last Matriarchal Society
Malaysian Gay Man Threatened With Death
S. Korean Christmas Tree Could be New Flashpoint
Monday, December 20, 2010
Iran Threatens to Murder US Generals
UK Counterterror Raids Nab 12 Muslim Men
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Instant Analysis: On the one hand, the news does not make sense. South Korea seems to be inexplicably playing with fire. Thus, the China Confidential forecast of Korean clashes--before Christmas or the New Year--could still come true.
could lob thousands of artillery rounds into more populated and developed areas of the South, including the dense capital region of Seoul, home to about half of the country's population, and fire missiles at cities in the South and in Japan, causing crippling economic damage....
an all-out war between the rival Koreas
Charlie Chan Rivaled Holmes and Marlowe
"CHARLIE CHAN, the celebrated fictitious Hawaiian-Chinese detective hero of six novels and 48 films, is elevated to new heights of inter-racial significance in this scholarly, imaginative and witty work of cultural analysis by Yunte Huang, an academic with a sense of humour. Huang was born in China, gained a doctorate in Buffalo, New York, taught at Harvard and is now a professor of English at the University of California, and, like Charlie Chan, demonstrates in person that Rudyard Kipling was wrong: East is East and West is West and the twain have met."
Incredibly, Liberal Idiots of Appeasement (led by the Appeaser-in-Chief in the White House) insist that civilized people respect 'Muslim World' culture ... meaning, barbarism and backwardness, burqas and brutality, head-slicing and headscarves, atrocities and amputations, clerical fascism and female genital mutilation, hatred and Holocaust-denial, violence and intolerance, terrorism and torture.
So it goes in the so-called politically correct Global Era, where propaganda passes for news, disinformation for analysis, and so on and so forth.
A MATRILINEAL PARADISE ON A BEAUTIFUL, REMOTE LAKE?
Long Isolated, Gentle, Peaceful People Threatened by Tourism, Sex Trade
ENGINEER FEARS FOR LIFE IN 'MODERATE' MALAYSIA
White House, Liberals, Mainstream Media Ignore
'Muslim World' Persecution of Gays and Lesbians
Inconvenient (for Liberal Viewers) Video: Kuwaiti Islamist Calls
for Mass Murder and Torture of Homosexual Men and Women
SEOUL FEARS NORTH MAY BOMB BORDERLINE XMAS TREE
S. KOREA VOWS TO DEFEND DMZ TOWER LIT LIKE TREE
Dateline Beijing: US Military Presence on Island Deterred North
Some 20 American military personnel were on the island at that time of the drill, taking support and observer roles. This, according to Jang Sung-min, a former South Korean presidential aide for national security, who was in charge of the presidential Blue House Situation Room, served as a crucial deterrent. "My observation on North Korean behavior for many years is that North Korea doesn't meddle into a South Korean military drill when US arms servicemen also participate," said Jang.
"North Korea's strategy was to threaten the ally of the US so that the US would come to the negotiation table. But it also feared that the situation might become a major clash between North Korea and the US, in case US military personnel became casualties," said Jang.
Click here to read the entire article, "The Day the Guns Were Silent."
Further Analysis: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Jonathan Pollack, a senior Fellow of Foreign Policy at the John L. Thornton China Center, says Chinese influence on North Korea is increasing. "There has been a distinct pattern at work that is trying to increase North Korea's dependence and reliance on China. And North Korea's apparent willingness (and) readiness for the moment to align more fully with China," he said.
Pollack says Beijing has been making a steady move toward strengthening its relationship with Pyongyang. "Through economic assistance, energy aid, provision of food, a supply of consumer goods, a slow but measurable increase in Chinese inroads in the North Korean economy, particularly in terms of resource exploitation and infrastructural development," he said.
Pollack says the imminence of a leadership succession in North Korea has convinced Beijing that it must accommodate the regime, its policies and nuclear program for now to maintain stability in the immediate region. He says U.S. policy is taking a similar stance for mostly security reasons.
"The United States is pursuing a strategy in the near term very much of prevention, trying to enhance U.S. response options, heighten collaboration and communication with both of its North East Asian allies (South Korea and Japan)," he said.
'In the Far East, North Korea is backed by the ascendant power, China. In the Middle East, Iran aspires to be the ascendant power.'
Click here to read the New York Post editorial, "Iran Rising."
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