• China and Japan back sanctions against North Korea
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[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10201876.stm[/url] [quote][B]South Korea says it has persuaded China and Japan to take part in financial sanctions against North Korea.[/B] It comes in the wake of the sinking of a South Korean naval ship by a North Korean submarine. In a BBC interview, South Korean Foreign Minister Yu Myung-hwan speculated that the sinking of the Cheonan might have been the result of internal Pyongyang politics. North Korea has angrily denied any responsibility for the attack. The North Korean military, Mr Yu said, might have decided to do it in order to distract attention from other problems. Mr Yu had no criticisms to make of China for failing to condemn North Korea publicly for the sinking of the Cheonan. On the contrary, he felt that China had been privately helpful and understanding during the three-way summit with South Korea and Japan, which ended on Sunday. South Korea is hoping to make the regime in Pyongyang pay a heavy price for its actions. It is invoking UN resolution 1695, passed in 2006, which makes it possible to introduce economic sanctions against North Korea for breaching its international obligations. The government in Seoul wants all inflows of money to North Korea to be stopped. If China, which has so far delayed announcing its own findings on the sinking of the Cheonan, does take part in the sanctions, it could make life even harder for President Kim Jong-il's regime. [B]Fragile economy[/B] Things are already difficult enough for him. The famine of the past seems mostly to have been dealt with, at least for now, as a result of the government's decision to allow a quiet measure of free enterprise. But this has helped to create a great deal of corruption among low-level officials, on a scale which the North Korean regime had never previously allowed. Towards the end of last year North Korea introduced a currency reform which had the effect of raising some salaries by as much as 10,000%. This made it possible for a lot of people to buy things they had only previously dreamt of. The shops were suddenly filled with great quantities of cheap consumer goods, mostly brought or smuggled in from China. But it also introduced alarming rates of inflation. The inflow of cash from outside has never been large, but it has helped to keep North Korea's immensely fragile economy going. If the Chinese join in a wider blockade, it could have serious political consequences as well as economic ones. It comes at a time when Kim Jong-il, the so-called "Dear Leader", is becoming manifestly weaker. He was once surprisingly clever at wrong-footing both South Korea and the United States in the past, but ever since his stroke in 2008 his powers have waned. If things go wrong it could have very serious consequences far wider than just Korea Now his third and youngest son, Kim Jong-un, seems to have been selected to take over from him, just as Kim Jong-il himself was once chosen to succeed "the Great Leader", Kim Il-sung. Scarcely anything is known about Kim Jong-un, who is either 27 or 28 - accounts vary. He is thought to have been educated in Switzerland, and he possibly speaks quite good English. Only one authentic photograph of him exists in the public domain, and since that was taken when he was eleven it is not much of a guide to his appearance now. Rumour in South Korea has it that he was involved in the disastrous decision to reform the currency last year. Mr Yu admitted in his BBC interview that all these things made people feel nervous about the future of the peninsula at present. "If things go wrong it could have very serious consequences far wider than just Korea," he said. It sounds like a measured understatement.[/quote] NK is officially all alone now.
NK is now officially fucked. They better stop dick waving.
[quote]China and Japan 'back North Korea...[/quote] You made me shit 20 bricks of terror and confusion
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;22317114]You made me shit 20 bricks of terror and confusion[/QUOTE] 'Twas thinking the same thing.
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;22317114]You made me shit 20 bricks of terror and confusion[/QUOTE] As I...
[QUOTE=Carbon Knight;22317114]You made me shit 20 bricks of terror and confusion[/QUOTE] same here.
Good to see some new North Korea/South Korea news.
Should build a blockade and starve them out :fuckyou:
All it will do is make North Koreans suffer more.
death to north korea
Well North, way to lose your only "friend". You are officially alone in the world.
[QUOTE=thisispain;22317702]All it will do is make North Koreans suffer more.[/QUOTE]Agreed. I doubt Kim Jong-il will care that his people are starving.
And now North Korea will stand down, and nothing will happen. Except that pretty much everyone will cut North Korea off now.
I think the best part is that this has nothing to do with their religion.
Somebody still loves you North Korea.
Did we even trade with North Korea before these sanctions?
idk why Japan has to be mentioned they were raping NK way before anyone else
Unless ol' Kim is as crazy as they say, it probably wont kick off now.
Why the fuck can't we just send some crazy-ass special ops peoples to take out their government? Kim Jong Il's death probably won't affect what happens.
nk will either have to a. go to war or b. back off
I'm just hoping his son isn't as crazy as he is, seeing as how he may have had a proper education and all.
[QUOTE]It is invoking UN resolution 1695, passed in 2006, which makes it possible to introduce economic sanctions against North Korea for breaching its international obligations.[/QUOTE]1695? seriously? Edit: whoops thought that was the year date. lol
*insert obligatory Team America joke*
[QUOTE=Black-Ice;22319059]Why the fuck can't we just send some crazy-ass special ops peoples to take out their government? Kim Jong Il's death probably won't affect what happens.[/QUOTE]"Let's kill the leader of Iran. What's the worst that could happen?"
Sanctions means they won't be able to get any support for their funding now.
Well, I almost hope NK does something dumb that gives SK a reason to attack.
Even though war is bad, I really hope wars starts there and North Korea will be destroyed finally brining civilization there. I just hope that South Korea has enough will and money to fix all the shit in the north.
okay so North Koren people where dieing like before .....
[QUOTE=PyromanDan;22317700]Should build a blockade and starve them out :fuckyou:[/QUOTE] Their people are already starving so all we need to do is to starve Kim Jong Il's fat ass.
Haha, reading this a is a good way to start my day.
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