Wikileaks Confirms EW Korea Argument re Refugees as Key
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While we’re not overwhelmed by the whole Wikileaks “thing”,
a subject on which we’ll have a Feature shortly,
it IS nevertheless interesting that, re North Korea —
dubbed by people in the region as “The Black Hole” —
the argument we made yesterday — re the centrality for China of
avoiding a flood of hungry, jobless refugees coming across international borders,
While we’re not overwhelmed by the whole Wikileaks “thing”,
a subject on which we’ll have a Feature shortly,
it IS nevertheless interesting that, re North Korea —
dubbed by people in the region as “The Black Hole” —
the argument we made yesterday — re the centrality for China of
avoiding a flood of hungry, jobless refugees coming across international borders,
in the event of the collapse of North Korea, a problem they’d like to forestall —
was strikingly confirmed by the initial summary material relating to North East Asia:
“China is content with the status quo of a nuclear North Korea because they fear that
a collapse would unleash a flood of North Korean refugees over the Chinese border”
At the same time, we see no evidence presented to contest the claim this same concern by refugees is shared by South Korea.
Put bluntly, we think the South Koreans are pretending to object to China’s position.
In our view, they completely agree with it,
but are afraid to express that openly,
for fear of upsetting the ideological United States and nuclear allergic Japan.
In this sense, China provides a very convenient cover for South Korea when it comes to the North:
It says almost exactly what the South Koreans WANT to say, but are afraid to,
because they don’t want to worry the US and Japan that
a “new Korea” might align with the Emerging East Asian Behemoth.
