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Originally posted by Cobaltic1978
The BIG banks do own China unfortunately. They will be the winners no matter what the outcome. They will be setting the agenda and funding both sides.
I believe NK is a threat to world peace, when you have nothing what do you have to lose?
Originally posted by jimmyx
Originally posted by Cobaltic1978
The BIG banks do own China unfortunately. They will be the winners no matter what the outcome. They will be setting the agenda and funding both sides.
I believe NK is a threat to world peace, when you have nothing what do you have to lose?
so if china says to "the big banks" go "f" yourselves...what are the "big banks" going to do...send in accountants armed with briefcases? china is flush with cash, and gold reserves, and everybody owes money to them, not the other way around. with all the western industrial manufactures over there, they can simply nationalize all the factories, and keep the manufacturing to themselves. they have everyone by the short hairs and that's why everybody is trying to make nice with them.edit on 8-4-2013 by jimmyx because: (no reason given)
It is 250 kilometres (160 miles) long,[1] approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide and despite its name is the most heavily militarized border in the world.[2][3] The Northern Limit Line, or NLL, is the de facto maritime boundary between North and South Korea in the Yellow Sea and the coastline and islands on both sides of the NLL are also heavily militarized.[4]
The 38th parallel north—which divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half—was the original boundary between the United States and Soviet brief administration areas of Korea at the end of World War II. Upon the creation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK, informally North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (ROK, informally South Korea) in 1948, it became a de facto international border and one of the most tense fronts in the Cold War.
Both the North and the South remained heavily dependent on their sponsor states from 1948 to the outbreak of the Korean War. The conflict, which claimed over three million lives and divided the Korean Peninsula along ideological lines, commenced on June 25, 1950, with a full-front DPRK invasion across the 38th parallel, and ended in 1953 after international intervention pushed the front of the war back to near the 38th parallel.
In the Armistice Agreement of July 27, 1953, the DMZ was created as each side agreed to move their troops back 2,000 m (2,200 yards) from the front line, creating a buffer zone 4 km (2.5 mi) wide. The Military Demarcation Line (MDL) goes down the center of the DMZ and indicates exactly where the front was when the agreement was signed.
Since the Armistice was signed, it has been monitored by members of the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission (NNSC). Since 1953, members of the Swiss[5] and Swedish[6] Armed Forces have been members of the NNSC stationed near the DMZ.
Incidents and incursions
Since demarcation, the DMZ has had numerous cases of incidents and incursions by the North Koreans, although the North Korean government never acknowledges direct responsibility for any of these incidents.[10] These include:
[I][U]Lots of incidents from both sides, but you only finally read about SoKo's some 200 odd raids/incursions in a small paragraph below the long list of NoKo's raids/incursions. See link for good time.[/U][/I]