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"What changed that North Korea would be serious this time?" China. Follow the money. China cannot have a nuclear conflict breakout. China is making a killing*

"What changed that North Korea would be serious this time?" China. Follow the money. China cannot have a nuclear conflict breakout. China is making a killing* exporting. China also knows Kim and Trump are totally insane and something could go terribly wrong. I would guess during this train ride Xi Jinping put down the hammer. http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/With-secret-armored-train-journey-to-China-North-Korea-s-Kim-Jong-Un-follows-in-his-father-s-footsteps_166807276 http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/With-secret-armored-tr...

ForRealsies 9y ago
Can a Nation Attack a Country? http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/can-a-nation-attack-a-company/ http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/can-a-nation-attack-a-com... Dilbert-man advises going against the 10 Powerful conglomerate Chinese Companies that handle all the trading with NK, back in July 2017.
noetic_techy 9y ago
Exactly. That train trip is the key factor here everyone is forgetting. The whole scenario was causing Japan and SK to invite too much US hardware so close to China and was looking more and more like an excuse for pre-emption. China isn't fully ready for a face off.
simonh 9y ago
Came here to say this. For the first time, in the last 6 months China properly put the economic screws on North Korea. They shut down the border markets and routes and also banned North Korean sales of coal, seafood and textiles. They have made token gestures after previous nuclear tests and such, but this was real, consequential action. Also Kim recently returned from a rare train trip to Beijing. If you want to understand what's going on, follow the money. Yes North Korea has improved a bit economically in the last 5 years or so, but China has finally made it crystal clear to Kim that the show is over.

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"What changed that North Korea would be serious this time?" China. Follow the money. China cannot have a nuclear conflict breakout. China is making a killing*

by ransom1538 9y ago

ForRealsies 9y ago
Can a Nation Attack a Country? http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/can-a-nation-attack-a-company/ http://blog.dilbert.com/2017/07/30/can-a-nation-attack-a-com... Dilbert-man advises going against the 10 Powerful conglomerate Chinese Companies that handle all the trading with NK, back in July 2017.
noetic_techy 9y ago
Exactly. That train trip is the key factor here everyone is forgetting. The whole scenario was causing Japan and SK to invite too much US hardware so close to China and was looking more and more like an excuse for pre-emption. China isn't fully ready for a face off.
simonh 9y ago
Came here to say this. For the first time, in the last 6 months China properly put the economic screws on North Korea. They shut down the border markets and routes and also banned North Korean sales of coal, seafood and textiles. They have made token gestures after previous nuclear tests and such, but this was real, consequential action. Also Kim recently returned from a rare train trip to Beijing. If you want to understand what's going on, follow the money. Yes North Korea has improved a bit economically in the last 5 years or so, but China has finally made it crystal clear to Kim that the show is over.