North Korea launches another missile, perhaps one that can reach U.S.

rhinefire said:

Japan is thinking about reforming their constitution in order to arm itself against North Korea. Viet Nam is deeply worried about North Korea as is The Philippines and Taiwan. China does not want war as millions of North Koreans will cross the river in to their country. We have 20,000 troops in the South that could suffer massive destruction from the North's artillery. It is a mess but with so much at stake we can only hope for strong bonding between us and China to get NK in to shape.

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CCP Dynasty in Beijing is the problem and not the solution concerning North Korea.

Trump and his hardass Team China advisers have shredded the old ways during which CCP yanked the U.S. around on N. Korea for 20 years. Xi Jinping would need to do an impossible complete about face on N Korea to see it the way of the U.S., Japan, South Korea and the nations of the region. This Xi cannot do. Xi can't even come halfway such as quit the trade and economic sanctions he's put on South Korea because of the installation presently occurring of the U.S. Army Thaad anti ballistic missile system south of Seoul.

If anything, USN could blockade North Korea while half the Pacific Fleet went surfing. No problem in that capability per se. It would also give everyone time to get their heads together for the inevitable collapse of Kim Jong Fat and his grotesque farce. While Xi could continue to supply the North overland, if bridges get taken out over the Yalu River border between CCP and N Korea Xi would have to rely completely on massive airlifts to deliver supplies. In any such undertaking Xi would expose himself as the double-timer he naturally is.

In futility one might add. It's time for Xi to start thinking the old adage that if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Them in this instance being us.

Xi Jinping and Kim Jong Un haven't ever met.

Kim has not invited Xi to visit in Pyongyang. Neither has Xi invited Kim to visit in Beijing.

Yet Xi has visited Seoul South Korea and the president of S Korea has visited Beijing. Xi has visited Japan. And Russia.

Now Xi has just completed a two-day visit with Potus Trump at Mar-a-Lago. It is long past time Xi Jinping realized and recognized USA and its allies are more important to China than are Kim Jong Fat and his goons in Pyongyang.



Japan plans joint show of force with U.S. carrier headed to Korean peninsula


Japan's navy plans joint drills with the U.S. Navy's Carl Vinson carrier strike group as it steams towards the Korean peninsula in a display of military power aimed at deterring the North Korean regime from further missile tests, two sources said.

"Japan wants to dispatch several destroyers as the Carl Vinson enters the East China Sea," said one of the sources.

The Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (MSDF) may conduct helicopter landings on each other's ships, as well as communication drills, as the USS Carl Vinson and its escort ships pass through waters close to Japanese territory, the sources said.

The display of U.S.-Japan naval power close to China could upset Beijing, which is locked in a territorial dispute with Tokyo in the region over uninhabited islets close to Taiwan. The show of naval force by Tokyo comes as concern grows in Japan over the rapid pace of North Korea's ballistic missile development and U.S. President Donald Trump's threat of unilateral action to solve the North Korean problem.

Japan plans joint show of force with U.S. carrier headed to Korean peninsula: sources | Reuters