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Agent Zero
01-09-2018, 05:38 PM
Given Trump's wavering and inconsistent remarks regarding pulling the US out of the Olympics next month...Should we pull out of the Olympics if North Korea sends a team there?

Peter1469
01-09-2018, 05:44 PM
I wouldn't pull out.

waltky
01-20-2018, 01:54 AM
China quietly preparing for possible N Korean crisis...
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China quietly preparing for possible N Korean crisis
Sat, Jan 20, 2018 - China has ramped up security along its border with North Korea, installing new surveillance cameras, deploying extra security forces and operating radiation detectors as it braces for a potential crisis.


Bellicose rhetoric between Washington and Pyongyang has raised fears in China of a conflict that could send millions of North Korean refugees across the 1,420km border, and of nuclear fallout that could hit Chinese towns. While authorities have been coy about preparations, residents have seen an increase in patrols along the frontier. Radiation monitors are running in border towns, and locals said interactions with North Koreans have been discouraged. A red banner tacked to a border fence in Dandong — a major trading hub separated from North Korea by the Yalu River — has a Cold War-like message to residents: “Citizens or organizations who see spying activities must immediately report them to national security organs.”

Outside Dandong, new checkpoints dot the road running along the Yalu River. Locals said they were installed in October last year. Relations between China and North Korea have deteriorated as Beijing has backed a series of UN sanctions to punish its secretive ally over its repeated missile and nuclear tests. In a previously unthinkable meeting, top US diplomats and military officials last year told their Chinese counterparts about US plans to send troops to North Korea and secure its nuclear weapons in case the regime fell. “The China-North Korea relationship has some problems at present,” said Yang Xiyu (楊希雨), a former Chinese negotiator on Pyongyang’s nuclear issue. “It has brought about the current difficult situation in the relationship.”

At the massive Supung Dam, which provides power to both China and North Korea, surveillance cameras monitor the Yalu River. Further north in Longjing, where the Tumen River freezes over in the winter, villages have established border protection units and cadres have taught self-defense to residents. The local propaganda department last year said that hundreds of cameras were being installed to build a “second-generation border surveillance system.” The measures are slashing the number of North Korean defectors who reach Seoul via a land route through China to Southeast Asia. Fewer than 100 North Koreans per month reached the South last year — the lowest number in 15 years, the South Korean Ministry of Unification said. Five of Pyongyang’s six nuclear tests have been carried out under Mount Mantap at Punggye-ri, about 80km from the border with northeast China, where citizens felt the accompanying earthquakes.

Some Chinese and foreign scientists worry that the 2,200m peak suffers from “tired mountain syndrome” and could collapse from further nuclear tests. Fear of radiation from a test, accident or nuclear war spreading to China runs high. After Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test in September last year, the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection conducted emergency radiation monitoring, although nothing abnormal was found. Last month, a state-run newspaper in Jilin Province published a full-page illustrated advisory detailing how to response in the event of a nuclear attack or disaster. “If there is a river, lake or pond near you, jump in to protect yourself,” it read. “Flush out your nostrils, rinse your mouth and clean out you ear canals.”

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2018/01/20/2003686113

Tahuyaman
01-20-2018, 08:50 PM
Given Trump's wavering and inconsistent remarks regarding pulling the US out of the Olympics next month...Should we pull out of the Olympics if North Korea sends a team there?
When did Trump threaten to boycott the Olympics?

Trish
01-22-2018, 05:23 PM
Given Trump's wavering and inconsistent remarks regarding pulling the US out of the Olympics next month...Should we pull out of the Olympics if North Korea sends a team there?

No, I think we should go. Of course I'm partial because I love watching the winter sports events.

Orion Rules
01-23-2018, 07:29 PM
No, the U.S. boycotts the Winter Olympics because Anubis still rules over the dog world, and he says he feels that people who consume dogs are degenerate bastards, and should have their necks taken off the same way they strangle some.

Or burn them in hot scalding water, or make them stand on a hot stove as they decided how best to be sure that each dogs dies a death so miserable the law of Moses was denied by the Christ at the cross; he died to stop all blood sacrificing!

Tahuyaman
01-25-2018, 01:21 AM
Trump has not threatened to boycott the Olympics. France and Germany have though.

rcfieldz
01-25-2018, 03:28 AM
I really like the half pipe and ski events. But I never have ski'd cause I didn't want to chance breaking a leg. I like the hot weather better.