ROK Foreign Minister Believes North Korea Could Launch Provocations During a Taiwan Crisis
In a Taiwan crisis I would be very surprised if the North Koreans did not launch provocations in support of their Chinese allies just to divert U.S. troops and attention to the peninsula:
Seoul “should be fully prepared” for North Korean provocations in the event of a crisis between China and Taiwan, South Korea’s chief diplomat said this week.
Foreign Minister Park Jin, speaking to lawmakers Monday at a briefing for the Foreign and Unification Committee, said North Korea may engage in provocative behavior and exacerbate a potential crisis in the Taiwan Strait.
“Peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait is very important for the peace and stability of our Korean Peninsula,” Park said. “Therefore, we would like to continue to work together with the U.S. while firmly maintaining the [South Korea]-U.S. alliance.”
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Surely that’s unpossible!
Communists working together?
Unheard of!
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Outside of American politics…
(Gets out risk assessment calculator)
The biggest risk we face on the peninsula is NK dropping a few thousand dollars worth of shells onto Seoul parks and parking lots at 3am.
No deaths. Limited damage. USKF unsure how to respond proportionally.
And, like covid, the response is generally worse than the problem.
Ten million Koreans with no food, water, shelter, gas, or plan, all trying to head south.
And there you are… from Daejeon to Busan surrounded by refugees and waiting in a 2 hour line to buy the last cup of off-brand raman.
The country is on indefinite hold and the economy takes forever to recover.
Bonus: as soon as USFK bombs some mountains where they think artillery is and maybe hits some military bases with missiles and declares victory and everybody goes home, NK does it again… panic… and south Korea ceases to be a functioning nation for some time.
Well, CH, it does fit in with Cloward-Piven…
That’s the reason Fatty is kept around and tolerated by Emperor Xi.