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What an eventful quarter? We
picked the most volatile issues to
watch. If the following 5 Northeast
Asian countries get trigger happy,
we could be shifting attention away
from the Middle East to the Far East,
as the new epicentre of a global
nuclear meltdown. We advise you to
prayerfully follow the links and read
the backstories.
Naughty North Korea
Leader Kim Jong-un, Initiates new
tensions in Northeast Asian fall out
by pursuing aggressive nuclear
missile testing in the region. This
reckless policy makes him appear
as a petulant child playing with
dangerous toys. As he makes his
bold show of force the USA have
responded by testing *THAAD in
South Korea and Japan has followed
by sending troops to join in these
peremptory military exercises with
the view to suring up their defences
in the case of a North Korean nuclear
attack. What does he expect to
achieve by triggering a nuclear war
in the region?
*Terminal High Altitude Area Defense -
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_
Altitude_Area_Defense
Contrary China
China has begun pursuing retaliatory
trade policy on South Korea, aimed
at disrupting its trade into China, for
preparing a defence against North
Korean Missiles (THAAD). Lotte
Group a S. Korean company did a
land swap of a golf course with the
S. Korean government to facilitate an
area to test THAAD. China’s response
was to punish them by subsequently
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closing down all Lotte stores in
China for “failing to meet safety
standards” customs regulations
were levied on K- Cosmetics, also
K- pop artists, K-drama actors are
banned from performing and
filming in China. Another blow was
to South Korean tourism industry, all
charted/packaged tours to S. Korean
destinations were banned. Chinese
Anti-Korean sentiment also spilled
over into the public arena where
stores in the Korean quarter of China
are vandalized and left like ghost
towns as they have been abandoned
by Chinese customers. Korean
flags have also been publicly torn
and Koreans physically assaulted.
The Chinese Ministry of National
Defense has warned South Korea
that its opposition to THAAD won’t
end with just words. [1] In spite of
S.Korea’s plea for China to cease its
retaliation China is planning to send
warplanes to the Spratly Islands as
further response to THAAD. Is S.
Korea not expected to defend itself
against unprovoked threats?
China is the keycard holder in this
diplomatic standoff. Only China has
the clout to convince N. Korea to
give up its nuclear weapons. Can
China not see the mutual benefits in
a unified Korea? Instead China uses
N. Korea as leverage, placing its own
ideology above the welfare of the
surrounding people?
Communism is supposed to be
an improvement on democracy;
the realisation of egalitarian,
enlightenment; it is meant to banish
authoritarian monarchical regimes
of the past lifting the oppression
of Tyrants from off of the people.
How are Communists countries
today any better off than what
they supposedly stepped away
from? How contrary then, is the
One China policy? In pursuance
of this policy China refuses to give
Hong Kong Independence and still
criminalises any sentiment of self
rule in Taiwan. Proverbially, Orwell’s
observation of communism that “All
Pigs are equal but some pigs are
more equal than others” still rings
true today. How are all people not
worthy of self determination? What
makes the Chinese Communist
Party the arbitrator of other people’s
destinies?
[1]http://www.arirang.com/News/News_View.
asp?nseq=202377
http://www.arirang.com/News/News_View.
asp?nseq=202284
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-
china-38285354
Mysterious Murder in Malaysia
The older Brother of North Korean
Communist Party leader Kim Jong-
Nam was found to have succumbed
to an alleged poison attack by N.
Korean operatives whilst preparing
to board a flight in the airport.
Malaysian
Police
investigations
suggest that this is an order of
assassination from N. Korean leader
Kim Jong Un on his half brother. Kim
Jong Nam the late, eldest son was
the expected heir to the Communist
Party. After his younger brother Kim
Jong-Un out of nowhere succeed
him instead. Kim jung Nam fled to
Macau part of China and had been
in exile since his untimely death.
This doesn’t argue well for how family