Comments on: China willing to ditch North Korea? http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/08/china-willing-to-ditch-north-korea/ Korea... in Blog Format Sun, 6 Jul 2008 22:55:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: usinkorea http://www.rjkoehler.com/2005/03/08/china-willing-to-ditch-north-korea/#comment-10960 usinkorea Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:09:29 +0000 http://rjkoehler.com/?p=1463#comment-10960 I'll have to hold my interest in the topic for about two decades, I figure, before we find out what China was and wasn't doing during this period of North Korea problem making. I have no particularly well based feeling that a lot of stuff is going on behind closed doors and in the field that we don't hear about. And when we hear about something like China moving large amounts of troops on the NK border, we just don't seem to have enough informatoin to understand what the moves mean. Which is one reason I believe there is much going on we don't get to see. Meaning, big troop movements are not isolated events. They are part of plans and strategies. We probably won't get a clear picture of what has been going on now until North Korea is no more and China is more forthcoming with scholarship on its activities. I think we will be surprised at some of the stuff being said and done. I'm not sure what kind of a suprise it will be ---- how China did pressure NK or China saved NK. I do think I'd probably worry a little if I were SK. It depends on how much SK freely shows its mind to China in discussions on NK and/or how freely NK discusses the NK relationship with SK when it talks to China. In better words, I have a feeling there is much behind the scenes efforts between SK and NK that SK will not want to see become public knowledge in the future. I’ll have to hold my interest in the topic for about two decades, I figure, before we find out what China was and wasn’t doing during this period of North Korea problem making.

I have no particularly well based feeling that a lot of stuff is going on behind closed doors and in the field that we don’t hear about.

And when we hear about something like China moving large amounts of troops on the NK border, we just don’t seem to have enough informatoin to understand what the moves mean. Which is one reason I believe there is much going on we don’t get to see. Meaning, big troop movements are not isolated events. They are part of plans and strategies.

We probably won’t get a clear picture of what has been going on now until North Korea is no more and China is more forthcoming with scholarship on its activities.

I think we will be surprised at some of the stuff being said and done. I’m not sure what kind of a suprise it will be —- how China did pressure NK or China saved NK.

I do think I’d probably worry a little if I were SK. It depends on how much SK freely shows its mind to China in discussions on NK and/or how freely NK discusses the NK relationship with SK when it talks to China. In better words, I have a feeling there is much behind the scenes efforts between SK and NK that SK will not want to see become public knowledge in the future.

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