US threatens China with military deployment

[DinoCrisisFreak]

(Reuters) - The United States warned China it would redeploy forces in Asia if Beijing failed to rein in North Korea, an Obama administration official said on Friday, as Pyongyang bowed to Seoul's demands for crisis talks.

President Barack Obama's warning had persuaded China -- the North's main diplomatic and economic backer -- to take a harder line toward Pyongyang, and opened the door to a resumption of inter-Korean talks, possibly next month, the official said, confirming a report in The New York Times.

North Korea accepted the South's conditions for talks on Thursday, marking a major breakthrough in the crisis on the peninsula. Such dialogue could clear the way for the resumption of the six-party aid-for-disarmament talks.

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We should just liberate North Korea and make it a US territory already. Then eventually make the territory an official US state.

 

[History_Buff]

We should just liberate North Korea and make it a US territory already. Then eventually make the territory an official US state.

This is the most well thought out statement I have ever heard.

 

[CurtSibling]

North Korea is rotten at the core. Why would the USA want to adopt a mess like that?

China will consume NK when the time is right.

 

[JollyRoger]

We should just liberate North Korea and make it a US territory already. Then eventually make the territory an official US state.

How much should we raise taxes to pay for the cost of this liberation operation?

 

[PeteAtoms]

How much should we raise taxes to pay for the cost of this liberation operation?

And the rebuilding (not that there will be much to rebuild) of the nation? And to bring their standard of living up to the level Americans have come to expect?

And why NK a state? Why not Puerto Rico? Why not invade Cuba?

 

[Cashie]

We should just liberate North Korea and make it a US territory already. Then eventually make the territory an official US state.

Yes. Unleash the compassion!

 

[FriendlyFire]

We should just liberate North Korea and make it a US territory already. Then eventually make the territory an official US state.

I thought we were doing Iran first ?
But it was delayed because the need to keep sizeable forces in the homeland to prevent the sucession of Blue states forming there own union and leaving the confederate red states.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Why exactly is it China's fault? Why should the US do anything, much less China? NK was actually heading towards peaceful reconcilliation, and even eventual unification, with SK until GWB stepped in and labeled them part of the "axis of evil" comedy tour with disasterous results.

 

[Kozmos]

Nothing, it will be all paid by the North Koreans as a Liberation Tax.

 

[CurtSibling]

This thead is what I would call "champion!"

 

[Holycannoli]

You know it's "champion" when GWB gets blamed for NK!

 

[FriendlyFire]

How much should we raise taxes to pay for the cost of this liberation operation?

But Jolly !!!
North Korea is a country that easily can pay for its own re-construction.
and we can pay for the war with a huge tax cut.

 

[amadeus]

Why exactly is it China's fault? Why should the US do anything, much less China? NK was actually heading towards peaceful reconcilliation, and even eventual unification, with SK until GWB stepped in and labeled them part of the "axis of evil" comedy tour with disasterous results.

Hooray for explanations that are simplistic and wrong!

 

[Formaldehyde]

Hooray for responses which are simplistic and wrong.

 

[JollyRoger]

Hooray for explanations that are simplistic and wrong!

“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”

 

[CurtSibling]

Hooray for this thread being shut down soon!

 

[Sveon]

Hooray for this thread being shut down soon!

Can I help?

You know it's "champion" when GWB gets blamed for NK!

GWB wasn't fit to lead a band of boy scouts, and he got re-elected. How about that?

 

[CurtSibling]

GWB led a baseball team once.

 

[amadeus]

Hooray for responses which are simplistic and wrong.

GWB's speech and posturing are responsible for the breakdown in relations between the two Koreas? I'd like to see you defend that instead of the far more reasonable belief that North Korea is ruled by a small clique that wants to keep itself in power because it's personally profitable for them, like so many other autocratic regimes. But then again, I'm sure there's a boatload of evidence to suggest that Kim Jong-il is a progressive reformer that genuinely seeks betterment for his people.

“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”

I was way wrong about Iraq. Besides, Saddam would have made a better trade partner than the guys they have now.

 

[NickyJ]

You know it's "champion" when GWB gets blamed for NK!

Couldn't agree more. Nothing like another round of blaming Bush. I'll pass on the hatoraid.