(04-14-2017, 04:52 PM)Accidental Stoner Wrote:  Found this:

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buz...lear-20168

"China Offers to Defend Kim Jong-un If He Gives Up His Nuclear Weapons",
the headline says.

(04-14-2017, 04:56 PM)Gumby Wrote:  

(04-14-2017, 04:52 PM)Accidental Stoner Wrote:  Found this:

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buz...lear-20168

"China Offers to Defend Kim Jong-un If He Gives Up His Nuclear Weapons",
the headline says.

Oh My ! That could be interpeted as a 'Green Light" for the USA.

That they would defend him ONLY if he gives up the Nukes.

(04-14-2017, 10:07 AM)Strigoi Wrote:  I might be wrong but I bet NK will back down, this is a non event IMO.

Quote:Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a chemical-weapons attack in Syria that provoked U.S. missile strikes on the Middle Eastern country may have been orchestrated.

“There’s growing evidence that this was staged,” Lavrov said at a Moscow news conference with his Iranian and Syrian counterparts on Friday. Publications including in the U.S. and the U.K. have highlighted “many inconsistencies” in the version of events in Syria’s Idlib province that was used to justify the American airstrikes, he said.

Russia contends the chemicals belonged to terrorists. Lavrov called on the U.S. not to repeat the airstrikes, which he said were part of efforts to oust Assad that won’t succeed.
Read more here: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic...orth-korea

Quote:“The United States and South Korea and North Korea are engaging in tit for tat, with swords drawn and bows bent, and there have been storm clouds gathering,” China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said in Beijing, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.