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Why Beijing again? This is NK-style maneuvering in NE Asia. To get a pledge of economic aid from Xi, having rattled the cage on his behalf to stop US-SK military exercises: "Xi, you owe us one." Talk about the end of war declaration and peace treaty
yonhapnews.co.kr/nk/2018/06/19/…
Or perhaps work toward getting China another bounty (remove USFK) that would please Xi. If it was NK, not SK, that proposed removing artillery from the DMZ, it could possibly be NK working toward that end. Ultimately that matters more to China than NK.
english.chosun.com/site/data/html…
Exchanging numbers with Trump prolly made Xi antsy. The call was supposed to take place on Sun but no news whether it happened. SK analysts note, "proper protocols" have to be set up before they talk. That's prolly making Xi work extra hard to woo KJU
asia.nikkei.com/Editor-s-Picks…
And don't forget special envoy Kim Yong-nam just went to the Kremlin to visit Putin and delivered him KJU's personal letter. It was another large and "interesting letter." It was prolly an invitation to visit Pyongyang.
news.donga.com/List/PoliticsN…
Don't forget also Moon is expected to visit Pyongyang in September and Pompeo is making noise about visiting Pyongyang again: this will be his 3rd visit if he goes, more than any other American official (save his lieutenant, KMC director Andrew Kim) reuters.com/article/us-nor…
This is "security competition." NK unleashed it by coming out of its hole to take advantage of geopolitics. NK is a "battleground state" for security competition and hinting it can be "flipped" was enough to make several Great Powers come courting
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Donga reports an economic delegation composed of representatives of US agricultural & German mining businesses visited NK in late Sept. The German concern is interested in NK's magnesite/graphite reserves and US agro biz looked at investment opportunity
news.donga.com/List/PoliticsN…
The timing of this was late Sept when Pompeo's 4th visit had been decided and US-NK dialogue was ongoing. NK treated this economic delegation well. The US concern is supposedly the largest one that sells agro & animal protein prods (Cargill, Tyson Foods?)
sedaily.com/NewsView/1S5Y4…
Front page news in SK courtesy of Donga. NK is known to have rather large mineral reserves other than just coal: copper, lead, iron ore, tungsten plus rare earth/rare metal elements like molybdenum. SK estimates it's worth $3.6 trillion (on the low side) imnews.imbc.com/replay/2018/nw…
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Foreign Minister Kang in another mini-controversy after Japan's Nihon-Kezai reports SoS Pompeo "blew up on her" after learning about the military agreement signed by SK and NK at the Pyongyang summit. N-K quotes Pompeo, "What do you think you're doing?"
news.joins.com/article/230344…
N-K: "There was no prior discussion about the nature of the military agreement SK struck with NK." Pompeo was said to be particularly upset about the 'no fly zone' established within proximity of MDL. US reconnaissance planes regularly fly near the area for surveillance of NK
Kang pretty much acknowledged something like that happened when asked about it at the National Assembly: "I wouldn't characterize it as 'furious' or 'blew up' but there was dissatisfaction re not being fully informed. So yes, I was asked a lot of questions"
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Japan declines to attend a naval event in Jeju after repeated calls by SK not to arrive with its Rising Sun Flag symbolizing Imperial Japan. However the real reason why it chose not to attend is more intricate.
koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20…
What happened is SK kept telling Japan's Embassy and Defense Minister that only the national flag should be flown. But Japan insisted it will come bearing the Rising Sun Flag. Then apparently SK NSA Chung and new Defense Minister Jung came up with a ploy
english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2018/…
They leaked news that the lead vessel of the host country may switch to ROKS Dokdo, which is the largest SK navy vessel. Dokdo is an island but also the name of this LPH-class amphibious vessel with a platform that can launch helis, Ospreys and even VTOLs
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One thing that I think is *drastically* underappreciated outside of China is the extent to which current trade tensions echo some of the biggest themes of the Community Party version of history: (1)
This is so well understood within China that I think it's seen as almost unworthy of comment, but there seems to be a gulf between that and the western view. (2)
Here's a picture of Xi Jinping at the Monument to the People's Heroes in Tiananmen Square, China's equivalent of Nelson's Column or the Washington Monument. (3)
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Having a fetish for black people doesn't stop Milo being racist, especially as he has admitted he gets kicks out of sex with a black person due to how naughty and profane it feels, which is, y'know, actually very racist.
I don't kink shame. Everybody has their 'hing.

In this case I make comment because his fetish for black people is routinely brought up as a reason why it would be impossible for him to be a racist, when it's really just part of the same thing with him.
Milo's black fetish is probably the one thing he says that comes from any place of sincerity, so it's the only thing he says I'll bother analysing. People fall for the shock jock stuff too much.
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It's not.

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