North Korea mocks Trump, hones Guam strike plans Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/north-korea-mocks-trump-hones-guam-strike-plans-9109986 (Updated:)
N Korea will be immensely overwhelm the moment N Korea lauch an attack on US - and N Korea entire country and its people will bear the real risk of being nuke - because N Korea on the outset has threaten to use its immature nuclear - and US will not take risk by not using its most lethal force in its first strike.
N Korea by being gunho - in fact bring the worst destruction on itself by being foolishly foolhardy.
Only crazy leader will say it will use nuclear in the first declaration of hostility.
A wise man once said - "As long as there is nuclear force, there will not be World War". This is true only if Leaders in the World are sound, reasonable and sensible.
It will not be true if one is a madman........ And one analyst just say especially when both sides are "inexperienced who are bxxxxx...... with no regard of the consequences...."
Think of the consequences. South korea is within missile range of the north. Any retalliation and the north will simply barrage south. A lot of people are going to get killed should the US or South strikes back. Only a carefully laid out plan can save seoul and the rest of south korea from destruction
A war breakout in Korean Peninsula - could mean annihilation of the Korean races - where thousands if not millions will have perished. And I believe Japan will not be spared either - except Japan is much further and N Korea will not have that much missiles to cause too extensive a damage.
S Korea will be subjected to arty range as well in addition to short-range missiles.
It is just that N Korea leader seems to be "out of mind" - whether he either disregard the consequences with suicidal intent or he think he can win.
He has completely no intention to pull any brake on a runaway trains that are heading towards collision. A madman indeed.
A almost hope NK will be stupid enough to take a shot at Guam. THAAD will deal with the missiles easily and the US will finally have the incentive to squash Little Kim like the cochroach he is.
It is not an incentive - rather it is a justification for US to whack NK.
Currently US is prevented from unilateral action against NK - because SK, Japan and China are dead set against it - because it will inflame the whole East Asia.
The moment NK fire at Guam, all hell will set loose - and US will have justification to whack NK.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi waits for the arrival of North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho for their bilateral meeting in the sidelines of the 50th ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting and its Dialogue Partners on Aug 6, 2017 in suburban Pasay city, south Manila, Philippines. (Photo: AP/Bullit Marquez)
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BEIJING: If North Korea launches an attack that threatens the United States then China should stay neutral, but if the United States attacks first and tries to overthrow North Korea's government China will stop then, a Chinese state-run newspaper said on Friday.
President Donald Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric toward North Korea and its leader on Thursday, warning Pyongyang against attacking Guam or U.S. allies after it disclosed plans to fire missiles over Japan to land near the U.S. Pacific territory.
China, North Korea's most important ally and trading partner, has reiterated calls for calm during the current crisis. It has expressed frustration with both Pyongyang's repeated nuclear and missile tests and with behaviour from South Korea and the United States that it sees as escalating tensions.
The widely-read state-run Global Times, published by the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily, wrote in an editorial that Beijing is not able to persuade either Washington or Pyongyang to back down.
"It needs to make clear its stance to all sides and make them understand that when their actions jeopardise China's interests, China will respond with a firm hand," said the paper, which does not represent government policy.
"China should also make clear that if North Korea launches missiles that threaten U.S. soil first and the U.S. retaliates, China will stay neutral," it added.
"If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so."
China has long worried that any conflict on the Korean peninsula, or a repeat of the 1950-53 Korean war, could unleash a wave of destabilising refugees into its northeast, and could end up with a reunified county allied with the United States.
North Korea is a useful buffer state for China between it and U.S. forces based in South Korea, and also across the sea in Japan.
The Global Times said China will "firmly resist any side which wants to change the status quo of the areas where China's interests are concerned".
"The Korean Peninsula is where the strategic interests of all sides converge, and no side should try to be the absolute dominator of the region."
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Lincoln Feast)
Source: Reuters Read more at http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asiapacific/chinese-paper-says-china-should-stay-neutral-if-north-korea-attacks-first-9113642
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