Friday, March 8, 2013
Interesting - China signed off on strong UN sanctions against North Korea, which is the first time they've actually matched actions with words when it comes to the unhelpful antics of the Hermit Kingdom - and people are thinking this is because China has finally gotten to the point of no longer being able to tolerate them getting their crazy on. Maybe. But what if what's really happening here is that China is afraid of being held responsible for what's to come? What if China has good reason to believe Lil' Kim may be on the verge of doing something quite incendiary, something that may lead to the military intervention of the US and they're worried about looking responsible for it because their relative inaction on NK til now has essentially enabled the delusional bastards? It's not impossible NK has come to the conclusion that their best bargaining chip is to start a war or come perilously close to starting one in order to force China to rise to its defence. And how exactly would China respond to a military intervention by the US or South Korea should things spin out of control and it come to that? Just a few weeks ago China and Russia made it clear they would not tolerate such a thing. I dunno - people seem to be looking at this repeal of the armistice stuff etc etc as just more of the same with the addition this time of China now being fed up with it - but I dunno - I get the feeling it's more complex than that, more problematic, more worrisome - possibly much more worrisome.
