Report China deploys 150,000 troops on N Korea border

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jmvho

If China does actually take care of NK, China will have already made it clear to all concerned NK will then be a province of China

When you look at a map, that would leave South Korea just hanging there.

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PS

I can't help but wonder about Russia's behavior lately and how all this could be connected.

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JohnR's video in post #27 is very interesting. I am concerned though, since what is going on right now is not exactly typical, for the thinking of the girl at 4:28-4:39. ". . . they're not that stupid." Really? Most, if not all wars, were started by stupidity.

Issachar

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4x in 4 days....

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/21/politi...ump/index.html

Part of larger strategy

Moscow, for its part, said it "regularly carries out patrol missions above the neutral waters of the Arctic, the Atlantic, the Black Sea and the Pacific Ocean."

"All such missions are carried out in strict compliance with international regulations and with respect to national borders," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a written statement.

But this week's encounter plays into a larger effort by Russian President Vladimir Putin "to prove Russia is back in the game," according to Howard Stoffer, a former State Department staffer.

"This kind of cat-and-mouse stuff has been going on for a while now," Stoffer told CNN, adding that Putin "is trying to put the US on notice that the Russians are everywhere and are back to expanding the limits of expanding their military power.

"It is one thing when you fly to be noticed," he said. "When the Russians buzz US ships, that is an unprofessional action because upsets the operation and is dangerous for all parties involved ... that is where the line that is drawn."

US officials have echoed Stoffer's stance as recently as February, after the USS Porter had three encounters with Russian aircraft while sailing in the Black Sea.

Those encounters were deemed unsafe and unprofessional because of how close the Russian planes flew to the American destroyer, a senior defense official said at the time.

Moscow denied that its aircraft had made any unsafe moves.

Russian aircraft have also been spotted recently flying near the coastline of US allies, including Japan, which has scrambled fighter jets four times this month in response, according to a statement from the Japanese Foreign Ministry.

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How a single Trump sentence enraged South Korea

U.S. President Donald Trump's apparently offhand comment after meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — that "Korea actually used to be a part of China" — has enraged many South Koreans.

http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/ap-expla...orea-1.3378452