posted on Apr, 7 2013 @ 06:16 AM
reply to post by Panic2k11
Thank you for posting that you are probably the only member who has so far actually given me a fair critique of the OP something that I welcome in the
face off all the “you’re wrong posts”. You are right I have basically ignored China, this was done on purpose. If time allows I plan on writing
a number of threads looking a different angles on what’s happening in North Korea for instance right now I am working on a thread entitled “why
the Korean War Is NOT Inevitable” and after that I was planning on a thread looking at the Chinese perspective on events and possibly another
looking at why American does and does not want a war. If I was to put all of this into one thread it would simply be too much, so it’s better to
break it all up.
I feel that when it comes to events like what’s happening in North Korea or Syria ATS usually just has thread after thread that consists of a news
story from the MSN followed up by ten pages of what members think about said news story or there are threads like “what if….” Or “north Korea
doesn’t exist” and “NWO North Korea False flag” and so on. There is very little in the way of actual analysis to really look at what’s
happening. That is what I am trying to do I am trying to look beyond the news stories at what they actually mean..
So in this instance my analysis has formed the conclusion that little kim with all his strong rhetoric has forced himself into a situation where he
may very well be forced to act on his words with force, that is to say some kind of violent aggression against the south. However at the same time we
have a South Korean leader who is determined to meet any North Korean aggression with a strong retaliation. As such I believe that this would lead to
war and potentially the reunification of Korea.
I do disagree with you on a couple of points, firstly I don’t think there is any need to get all worked up about the use of the word
“communist”. Yes one could argue that North Korea follows neo-Stalinism or Maoism or we could sit around and discuss the Juche idea or grad-daddy
him, but that’s not really what this thread is about, most people would use either the word communist or dictatorship. I am not going to get bogged
down in a debate about the specifics of the state ideology because that’s not what this thread is about.
Lastly I also think you are failing to recognise that the rhetoric this time is stronger that it has been in the past and that we have to remember we
are dealing with two new players who are not as predictable as their predecessors. Something that is interesting to note is that in 1994 during
intra-Korean talks a North Korean diplomat said that North Korea would “burn” Seoul. The diplomat was later fired from his post for such an
outlandish remark, yet now we have North Korean Leader saying he is going to nuke America. There is no real denying that just now tensions on the
peninsula are arguable the highest they have been at since the 2010 bombardment of Yeonpyeong.
So while yes I do agree with you that it has been short-sighted of me to only discuss this form a North/South Korea point of view I do think that we
must recognise that tensions right now are running very high and war is a real possibility. the former UK Ambassador to North Korea said so just the
other day.