South Korea Proposes Peace Talks with North Korea

NK is also feeling the bite from China, after China cut off their oil supply 'after international pressure', as Reuters put it.
 
blackascoal said:
After you've been posting with me for a while, you'll know that I rarely make claims that I can't support with evidence or fact-based commentary.

‘Shocked’ South Korea leader Moon orders probe into why US delivered four extra THAAD launchers without telling him
It comes as South Korea and China try to put relations back on track after deployment of missile system infuriated Beijing

Moon was “shocked” to hear that the four additional THAAD launchers, deployed to counter the North Korean missile threat, were brought in without being reported to the new government or to the public, presidential spokesman Yoon Young-chan told a media briefing.

“President Moon ordered his senior secretary for civil affairs and head of the National Security Office to find the truth behind the unauthorised entry of the four rocket launchers,” Yoon said.

“He also ordered them to find the truth about why it has never been reported to the people or the new government.”

The deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) system by the US military, agreed by the government of Moon’s predecessor, was a controversial issue in the May 10 presidential election and has infuriated China, North Korea’s lone major ally.
http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/diplo...rea-leader-moon-orders-probe-why-us-delivered

Anger grows in South Korea over US anti-missile system
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/03/anger-grows-in-south-korea-over-us-anti-missile-system.html

Let me guess .. you didn't know this .. and if you didn't know that .. what is your question?
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Apparently he should not have been shocked, since the deployment was announced in November 2016, and his predecessor welcomed it.

https://missilethreat.csis.org/south-korea-thaad-deployment-timeline-announced/

It also seems - at least to the folks at Foreign Policy - that "anger at Trump" wasn't the motivation for suspending the deployment.

The administration of new president Moon Jae-in, a left-leaning politician who favors rapprochement with North Korea, suspended the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems (THAAD), in what has emerged as a contentious domestic fight over how Seoul juggles its relations with China, North Korea, and the United States.The move appears in part to be a concession to Chinese objections to the deployment.


http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/06/07...ea-halts-deployment-of-thaad-missile-defense/

So, my questions remain the same. Do you need me to repost them?
 
blackascoal said:
Sure .. but who wins?

Obviously you have no idea how much of the world is inter-dependent.

Faithless has nothing to do with it.

The man you claim to love is a buffoon who offends the world .. and America's stature in the world has been reduced under the orange clown show.
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An ally who negotiates unilaterally with third parties without regard to agreements in place could be fairly described as "faithless", I think.

As to the rest, we'll have to wait and see.
 
Pyongyang's tests have spurred urgency in development of a missile-defense system being deployed in South Korea. Last week, the U.S. military*successfully intercepted a simulated intermediate-range ballistic missile using the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.
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might still be the only option, but the 2 Korea's talking to each other can only be a good thing
 
LuvTrump said:
An ally who negotiates unilaterally with third parties without regard to agreements in place could be fairly described as "faithless", I think.

As to the rest, we'll have to wait and see.
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You mean like TPP or the Climate Agreement?

I'm afraid your Trump love has left you blind and out of touch with reality.

Trump is isolating the US.
 
anatta said:
regional alliances are a good thing..there is no need for us to extend into SE Asia, or central Asia for ex.
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As Leader of the Free World there was indeed rational reasons to be in Asia .. regardless of what Putin thinks.

Trump is even stepping on regional alliances.
 
blackascoal said:
South Korea on Monday proposed holding bilateral military talks with the North this week aimed at reducing tensions across the border*and Red Cross talks on Aug. 1 to discuss resuming reunions of the families separated since the Korean War more than 60 years ago.

South Korea wants military talks to begin Friday*at a North Korean building in the truce village of Panmunjom, the Ministry of National Defense said in a statement picked up by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.*Vice Minister Suh Choo-suk said the talks would attempt to end*"all acts of hostility" near the Military Demarcation Line that divides the two Koreas.

The talks*would be the first dialogue between the military authorities in almost three years.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un voiced support for talks last year, saying dialogue could ease tensions in the region. A series of missile tests since that time, however, had added stress to Pyongyang's relations with*Seoul as well as other neighbors in the region and the West.

The standoff between North Korea and Seoul and its allies drew even more tense July 4*when Pyongyang tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile. The Hwasong-14's estimated maximum range of about 4,163 miles means it could hit targets in Alaska.

Pyongyang's tests have spurred urgency in development of a missile-defense system being deployed in South Korea. Last week, the U.S. military*successfully intercepted a simulated intermediate-range ballistic missile using the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system.

The defense system, along with joint military exercises conducted between Seoul and the U.S., have drawn sharp condemnation from Kim. Moon says bilateral talks could ease tensions.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...h-korea-proposes-peace-talks-north/483705001/

I'm guessing the South Koreans have watched Trump's buffoonish behavior and decided they needed to make their own deals.
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Right, because they have never done this before. What a buffoon.
 
blackascoal said:
As Leader of the Free World there was indeed rational reasons to be in Asia .. regardless of what Putin thinks.

Trump is even stepping on regional alliances.
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I'm not saying don't be in Asia,i'm saying we don't always to be in the lead role or organizer.

In the case of the South China Sea, the littoral states are unable to stand upto the Chinese Navy -
so we need to be fully engaged.

In the central Asian "stan" countries, we are outsiders ad the Islamic state can organize themselevs, or partner w/Russia if the wish.

Russia is making great inroads to commercial ties in Afghanistan. If we ever get tired enough of bleeding there
and pull out -Russia will be the superpower/economic partner -China to a lessor extent
..India and the sub-continent are of course different.
 
blackascoal said:
You mean like TPP or the Climate Agreement? I'm afraid your Trump love has left you blind and out of touch with reality. Trump is isolating the US.
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In those two cases, that could be a good thing.

Why did you blame Trump for a missile deployment that was announced before he was president, and say that the new president of South Korea was "shocked" even though it was publicly announced, by the way?

https://missilethreat.csis.org/south-korea-thaad-deployment-timeline-announced/
 
blackascoal said:
As Leader of the Free World there was indeed rational reasons to be in Asia .. regardless of what Putin thinks.
Trump is even stepping on regional alliances.
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I'm tired of funding endless conflicts around the world, meddling in matters that we have no moral authority to engage in, and the like, so it's time to quit being "the leader of the free world" in that context.
 
Yaya said:
Right, because they have never done this before. What a buffoon.
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More moron comments.

There are reasons why they're doing this now that are way over the head of a dummy like you .. including the fact that Moon campaigned on it, AND the rising anger throughout his country.

If you don't mind I'd like to get back to talking to adults.
 
LuvTrump said:
I'm tired of funding endless conflicts around the world, meddling in matters that we have no moral authority to engage in, and the like, so it's time to quit being "the leader of the free world" in that context.
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I agree, but in case you haven't noticed .. we instigate many of those conflicts because we make money off war and conflict.
 
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