The US Is Doing Everything It Possibly Can To Start A War With North Korea
It's pathological surreality. Expect a convenient "incident" to kick it off.
My fresh potassium iodide pills arrived today.
Biggest US-Japan naval drill starts amid N.Korea crisis
"SEOUL — The largest ever US-Japan war games kicked off Friday in waters off the tense Korean peninsula as the UN's atomic watchdog voiced "great concern" about North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
The manoeuvres in the East China Sea dwarf US-South Korean exercises this week in the Yellow Sea that were meant as a show of force to Pyongyang after its regime launched a deadly artillery strike against South Korea.
In their joint display of military firepower dubbed "Keen Sword", the US and its officially pacifist ally Japan started eight days of drills with 60 warships, 500 aircraft and 44,000 troops in southern Japanese waters.
The long-scheduled drill comes in a year when China has had a bitter maritime territorial row with Japan and quarrelled with Southeast Asian nations over what the regional giant claims are its ancestral waters.
The North's artillery and rocket attack on Yeonpyeong island on November 23 killed two civilians and two marines and wrecked almost 30 homes. It was the first shelling of a civilian area in the South since the 1950-53 war.
Washington, Tokyo and Seoul have snubbed Beijing's proposal for six-way talks that would also involve Moscow -- opting instead for their own three-way meeting to be hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.
"We'll keep a close watch on this meeting," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu."
My fresh potassium iodide pills arrived today.
Biggest US-Japan naval drill starts amid N.Korea crisis
"SEOUL — The largest ever US-Japan war games kicked off Friday in waters off the tense Korean peninsula as the UN's atomic watchdog voiced "great concern" about North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
The manoeuvres in the East China Sea dwarf US-South Korean exercises this week in the Yellow Sea that were meant as a show of force to Pyongyang after its regime launched a deadly artillery strike against South Korea.
In their joint display of military firepower dubbed "Keen Sword", the US and its officially pacifist ally Japan started eight days of drills with 60 warships, 500 aircraft and 44,000 troops in southern Japanese waters.
The long-scheduled drill comes in a year when China has had a bitter maritime territorial row with Japan and quarrelled with Southeast Asian nations over what the regional giant claims are its ancestral waters.
The North's artillery and rocket attack on Yeonpyeong island on November 23 killed two civilians and two marines and wrecked almost 30 homes. It was the first shelling of a civilian area in the South since the 1950-53 war.
Washington, Tokyo and Seoul have snubbed Beijing's proposal for six-way talks that would also involve Moscow -- opting instead for their own three-way meeting to be hosted by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday.
"We'll keep a close watch on this meeting," said Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu."
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