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US strategy to lower temperature on Korean peninsula involves containing Pyongyang and reassuring Seoul that it has its back
By Ewen MacAskill in Washington, guardian.co.uk, 5 April 2013
[....] in spite of all the military activity and bellicose rhetoric, there is a feeling in the White House and the Pentagon that any threat to the US or its allies is not imminent. The Pentagon assessment is that North Korea has not yet mastered the technology needed to accurately fire a nuclear-armed missile at the US mainland or any of its bases in the Pacific.
The danger to the US is indirect. An attack by North Korea on South Korea, as happened in 2010, shelling an island and accused of also torpedoing a navy ship, with the loss of 46 sailors, would provoke immediate retaliation by the South Korean government. The US, in a secret pact signed last month with Seoul, is believed to have confirmed it will provide support.
The Obama administration's official policy towards North Korea is officially known as 'strategic patience', containing North Korea, reassuring its neighbours South Korea and Japan and hoping for a diplomatic solution sometime in the future. [....]
Also see:
North Korea says it cannot guarantee foreign diplomats' safety after 10 April
By Dan Roberts in New York, Justin McCurry in Seoul and Haroon Siddique, guardian.co.uk, 5 April 2013
Embassies told to consider withdrawing staff as missiles are reportedly moved to North Korea's east coast
Comments
Note the summary sentence:
by artappraiser on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 1:04pm
Maybe North Korea is shorting the market? With every bad report the stock market tanks.
by Resistance on Sat, 04/06/2013 - 12:38am
China has had enough:
from
U.S. lawmakers say China has failed to rein in North Korea
By David Morgan, Reuters, April 7, 2013
More here:
and here:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2013 - 4:35pm
Foreign Policy has the lede--TROLL NUMBER UN--on their home page for the following story:
by artappraiser on Sun, 04/07/2013 - 4:58pm