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China needs to dispatch its army to NK within 24 hours just to protect them from invasion of south korean and U.S
Having just extracted itself from a prolonged and very costly war, the U.S. is highly unlikely to go jumping into another war if it can possibly help it.
Nor is China stupid enough to go rushing to the premature "aid" of a hermit nation ruled by a dynasty of demented nitwits and their courtiers.
Good riddance. One of the true evil heads-of-state less in the world. Now I am curious how the situation will evolve in the enormous concentration camp that is North Korea. Anything goes from civil war to liberalization, although the latter does not exactly seem plausible in a brainwashed nation. All we may hope for is that the common people will suffer a little less in the future.
Japan's MSDF vessel makes first port call in China since 2008
NGDAO China (Kyodo) -- A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer called at a port in Qingdao in China's Shandong Province on Monday for friendly exchanges, in the first such visit to the neighboring country since 2008.
The 4,550-ton destroyer Kirisame, which left Sasebo base in Nagasaki Prefecture on Saturday, will stay in Qingdao Port for five days to highlight efforts by Japan and China to build confidence ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's first official trip to China slated for next week.
A welcoming ceremony for the Japanese vessel was held at a military wharf, which is off limits to the Chinese general public. The ship's commander, Rear Adm. Fumiyuki Kitagawa, is scheduled to pay a courtesy call on the Chinese Navy's North Sea Fleet Headquarters after the event.
A Japanese destroyer visited a port in Zhanjiang in China's Guangdong Province in June 2008 in the first ever visit of its kind.
After the first port call, visits by MSDF vessels to China were called off for two consecutive years due to a visit to Japan by an exiled Uyghur ethnic minority leader in July 2009 and collisions involving a Chinese fishing boat and Japanese patrol boats off the disputed Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea in September last year.
About 240 crew members of the Kirisame will take part in friendship events such as sporting matches and a joint concert of Japanese and Chinese naval bands in the military facility.
They are also slated to conduct a communication drill with the crew of a Chinese navy vessel after leaving Qingdao Port on Friday and will return to Sasebo base on Sunday, according to the MSDF.
A Chinese naval vessel visited ports in Tokyo in November 2007 and Hiroshima Prefecture in November 2009. Mutual port calls were agreed upon by the two countries' defense ministers in August 2007.
(Mainichi Japan) December 19, 2011
Japan's MSDF vessel makes first port call in China since 2008 - The Mainichi Daily News (http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20111219p2g00m0dm107000c.html - broken link)
Hallelujah! That evil **** is dead and good riddance! Hopefully something can be done to help the millions living in dire conditions in North Korea now.
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