Some of the latest news:
North Korea accused South Korea’s navy Tuesday of trespassing in its waters and threatened military action, further raising tensions sparked by the sinking of one of Seoul’s warships in March.
The South has announced a series of reprisals including a trade ban after a multinational investigation concluded last week that a North Korean submarine had torpedoed the Cheonan on March 26…
Why on earth would North Korea torpedo a South Korean ship? I know – the rulers of NK are a bit lunatic, but where is the upside on this action? What were they hoping to accomplish?
I was initially thinking that this was a move to just shake us down for some more bribes – given the sort of President we’ve got, it was a good bet that provocation would be rewarded. But now things are taking a decidedly ugly turn. There is a real threat of a shooting war – not big; not like its sure to happen in a week…but its definitely there.
I begin to wonder – who benefits from a blow up on the Korean peninsula? Not the Koreans, to be sure. Neither do we. Japan sure as heck has to be nervous as all get out. Who?
China is about to have one heck of an economic downturn – they have to pay the piper for all the free money they shoved in to their economy in a bid to get past the recession. There are bubbles stacked upon bubbles in the Chinese economy and they all must come down – could it be that China is stirring the hornet’s nest?
A major crisis in Korea allows people to blame that for a severe down turn in the Asian economy – rather than blaming the Chinese government for their asinine economic policies. A blow up in Korea allows the Chinese government to excuse itself to the Chinese people for their coming economic problems – not our fault, those dratted Koreans did it! A war in Korea will distract the world completely from what is going on in China while China endures the down turn, represses its own people and puts its fiscal house back in order. And its not like it’d be hard for China to get hold of a North Korean torpedo and use it to hit a South Korean ship…heck, China might even be the source for NK’s torpedoes.
This is all just a theory of course – but if someone has a better one, I’m all ears.
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