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posted by janrinok on Monday April 30 2018, @07:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-all-gone-quiet dept.

"Seoul's Defense Ministry said Monday it will pull back dozens of its frontline loudspeakers on Tuesday.

It says Seoul expects Pyongyang to do the same.

South Korea had turned off its loudspeakers ahead of Friday's summit talks, and North Korea responded by halting its own broadcasts." foxnews.com/world/2018/04/30/latest-s-korea-to-remove-loudspeakers-at-border.html

Seoul had blasted propaganda messages and K-pop songs from border loudspeakers since the North's fourth nuclear test in early 2016. The North quickly matched the South's action with its own border broadcasts.

"South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Monday that President Trump deserves to win a Nobel Peace Prize for his role in talks to denuclearize the Korean peninsula and end the decades-long war between the North and South.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:29AM (8 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:29AM (#674007) Journal

    I'm with you on that.

    That mountain collapsing has scared North Korea. I can't say why - maybe it's something from Korean mythology. Or, maybe their scientists are scared shitless that they've left something out of Pandora's box. Or, maybe Kim woke up, and did some simple math: "We have x number of bombs, the US has x time a couple thousand, Russia has x times a couple thousand, China has . . . .

    Whatever has happened, Trump's influence has been negligible.

    Another possibility, is that Little Kim has awakened to the fact that his predecessors were all manipulated by Russia. Or, to be more accurate, the Soviet. The whole mess in Korea was engineered by the Soviet to keep the West's attention on the peninsula, rather than on Russia and Siberia. Ditto with Vietnam. Both of those messes also kept China occupied for decades.

    There's stuff happening behind the scenes that we, the general public, aren't privy to. And, no matter how it all shakes out, Trump has little if any influence on it. Like Obama, he's just the chump who gets credit for doing nothing.

    That old saying about three kinds of people? Those who watch things happening, and wonder what's going on. Those who watch things happen, knowing what's going on. And, those who make things happen. The public falls into that first category.

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  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:01AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 01 2018, @03:01AM (#674020)

    Trump has been using every carrot and stick on China. China now buys coal from the USA instead of North Korea, and is generally cooperating with the sanctions for the first time ever.

    Much of the influence came via Xi, but Xi didn't care until Trump insisted.

    • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:26AM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday May 01 2018, @05:26AM (#674051) Homepage Journal

      Absolutely, I never forget the great help that my good friend, President Xi of China, has given to the United States, particularly at the Border of North Korea. Without him it would have been a much longer, tougher, process!

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:45PM (5 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday May 01 2018, @02:45PM (#674152) Journal

      Citation needed. I do believe that China is moving away from coal, because the air quality sucks so badly. China needed coal to get started, but they really want to leave coal behind. And, they are regulating coal, to reduce the emissions/pollution.

      I won't go so far as to claim that we aren't selling coal to China, but you'll need some kind of citation to support your claim.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 02 2018, @06:43AM (#674476)

        By percentage, coal use is going down. By volume, coal use is going up. Both changes are pretty rapid in China.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:15AM (3 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Wednesday May 02 2018, @07:15AM (#674483) Homepage Journal

        It's not about American coal. Believe me, China can buy all the American coal they want. And I'll love them for that. This is the coal from North Korea. Don't you follow me on Twitter? I tweeted about it in January, I said China wasn't enforcing the sanctions, there was a lot of under-the-radar on the Chinese side. I said Beijing does not police the border strictly or enforce the sanctions toughly. And in February China said, no more coal. They stopped the coal, because of me. You must have been busy in February. Because it was on @FoxNews [twitter.com]. And Brietbart News. And SoylentNews. China Suspends All Coal Imports from North Korea, look for that one. Long time ago, right? Believe me, I've been working on this for a long time. Working very hard and very "smart." Not always easy to win the Nobel Peace Prize. For Obama it was easy. For a white man, not so easy. But nobody deserves it more than me!!!!

        • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday May 02 2018, @02:50PM (2 children)

          by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 02 2018, @02:50PM (#674583) Journal

          Don't you follow me on Twitter?

          Uhhhhhh - Donny? I'll let you in on a secret. Sensible people don't tweet. I don't twit, I don't tweet, I'm not a fucking bird.

          Also, I'm not a follower. So, if I were a damned twit, I wouldn't be following you anyway.

          They stopped the coal, because of you? Mmmm-hmmmmm - you can tell yourself that, if it helps you feel good about yourself. Yes, China did suspend coal imports from Korea. China weighed a lot of data, and a lot of options, and decided to suspend coal imports from the Norks. "The Donald" was just one of the many data that were placed on China's balance scale.

          Don't make me take you to task yet again for being an egotistical shit. China doesn't care very much WTF you think.