Russia 'seriously concerned' over Korea tensions

[nadinbrzezinski]

Russia 'seriously concerned' over Korea tensions

Russia says it is seriously concerned that tensions between North and South Korea will escalate further.

Pyongyang is threatening to retaliate if the South goes ahead with planned military exercises on an island near the two countries' disputed sea border.

Last month four people were killed when the North attacked the island during similar exercises.

The UN Security Council is preparing discuss the situation at an emergency meeting, scheduled at Russia's request.

Russian ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin said his country was "seriously concerned about possible further escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12029875

Since our news media considers this to be a non issue, as usual go abroad.

Oh and Bill Richardson is calling this a "tinderbox."

On a personal note, reaching for the tin foil hat, all those this is how to react in a nuclear strike make sense all of a sudden... it is not about AQ... it is about N. Korea... on the bright side both are in the terrarist list.

On and this is little kim, but this is change we can believe in... a THIRD HOT WAR.

[Cetacea]

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[xor]

9. I get unrec'ing opinion articles or overly bias pieces of "news", but I don't get this either...

I suppose one could view it as being used to pound the drums of war, but that seems like a stretch.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Some people will unrec the sky is blue posts

It just struck me as funny... been on DU for a LONG TIME... So I get the HS cliques....

I will leave it at that...

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. CNN breaking into this situation

he is meeting N. Korean Generals, and talking with Wolf Blitzer...

Richardson is playing in between

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It is very fluid, and things are REALLY TENSE

on the bright side, N. Korea will allow US delegation to recover bodies from the Korean War.

[Cetacea]

6. What scares me is talk of "limited" nucler war.

It is estimated that a localized exchange of one hundred nukes would kill billions and blow a huge whole in the ozone layer. "Nuclear Winter" would follow.

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Hey look on the "bright" side

Global Warming will be taken care off.

Yes, I gotta say it I got a very dark humor.

[charlie and algernon]

13. yeah, limited nuclear war is the ultimate oxymoron

a "limited" nuclear exchange leaves the Korean penninsula and Japan a radioactive wasteland and the global economy, or what's left of it, into a depression the world has never seen.

[gateley]

14. Did you happen to read War Day in the 80's? I think maybe it's time to reprint it.

It seemed pretty realistic to me.

[JVS]

5. Russia should take back their satellite state. Things have sucked since they bailed on NK.

The fact of North Korean geography is that only 20% of the land is farmable. NK was able to survive in the Soviet era because cheap oil came in and industrial products (particularly nickel) were exported. China is bad at operating this and only sends a bare minimum of rice. This is destabilizing on the regime and motivates risk-taking behavior.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Methinks that if there is no war

and at that point the resumption of hostilities will not shock me... there will be reunification...

[JVS]

10. I doubt it. North Korean views on the legitimacy of the South Korean government...

would have a hard time supporting it. Also, I've read that S Korea does not favor a German style sudden reunification. Nor does China desire a US satellite on its border. Perhaps a plan to transition to an unaligned government might be in the making.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Read the wiki leaks on this

the unification seems to have been in the works...

At this point, I am not going to be too shocked if lead starts flying (again) though.

That said, them nukes and what to do make sense all of a sudden...

[gateley]

15. Again, thanks go to WikiLeaks. And the BBC, Al Jazeera English, anybody but

the US MSM.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Well there is the NYT...

and I do hope things do cool down before tuesday.

[DemReadingDU]

17. IMO, somebody is wanting to start 'something'

The global economy sucks, and another big war would help some countries recover financially.

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. In my opinion people are trying to stop this

another war, especially a nuclear one, would have effects that nobody wants to consider.

This is partly about the succession in N. Korea. That is mostly what is going on.