Thursday, March 03, 2005
North Korea abruptly delays assembly session
North Korea has postponed a regular session of its parliament, its official news agency said on Friday, a move watchers of the reclusive country said was unprecedented and puzzling....
A key South Korean government official who follows changes in the North said postponing a session after it had been publicly called had never happened before, although previously sessions had been skipped altogether.
"It looks like they may be preparing for the release of something," the official said, adding the lack of similar examples in the past made it difficult to assess the significance of the move.
Let's hope the "something" to be "released" is not a missile.
Meanwhile, the land of the rising sun is not sitting idly by.
Don't let the boring diplo-speak fool you. The Japanese are lining up with us on everything important. They are going to become interoperable, see para. 13. They are with us in Middle East, and on Taiwan and on NK. Interestingly , Japan is going to export missile defense technology to the USA. I wonder what they have figured out how to do that we are so far unable to do?
2 Comments:
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Final Historian, at
Thu Mar 03, 11:42:00 PM:
I wonder if this is simply another stunt to get them attention. Either way, we will need to keep our eyes upon the Krazy Kingdom.
By TigerHawk, at
Fri Mar 04, 05:13:00 AM:
Speak Shaker: I think that Japan is reconsidering its demilitarization. Since Japan doesn't seem to do anything "half way," that has its own risks, but I think it is becoming easier both for Japan to remilitarize and for other countries in the region to live with the idea. Why? The generation that remembers a militarized Japan has substantially died off.
