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US VP to DMZ Post Picturesque Military Tradition

Posted by HCN on Monday, April 17, 2017
The United States Vice President visiting the demilitarized zone at a very sensitive time in the timeline of the Koreas region since the end of the Korean War.


Why might this be a sensitive time?

There has been discussion by news sources having to do with recent missile tests in the past week performed by North Korea.

There might be concern that some of the crimes against political prisoners has been ongoing since long before the current leader of North Korea could have possibly had ascertainment of them.

Developments pertinent North Korea that currently sit salient has aspects two-pronged, one, punishment of political prisoners and rumored experiments on humans that are archaic and obsolete in today's acceptance of what is civilized, and second, nuclear capability, whereat the trust factor such as to potentialities of the capability is toward the forefront of international peace agenda.

What the precise reality is on a day to day basis in terms of what is pragmatically going on inside the geopolitical borders of North Korea, might be somewhat elusive to the world outside that Nation.  This all while dimensions in the South China Sea have hot seat issues now, namely the prospects of oil, and territorial disputes. 

The sum of the entirety is a recipe that attracts intervention to attain and maintain at least an understanding circumscribing the developments of the region, for instance so that the U.S. knows how to keep our deck of cards straight on the international table and able to not just compete, economically, militarily and standard facets, but also survive.  The reference to survival could ask, what would happen if the price per barrel of oil dropped so low, ten times lower than ever before, from the markets we have been getting the oil from the last 50 years, to compete against oil sales coming from underwater off-shore drilling in the South China Sea?  Maybe good, maybe bad, likely a combination that would have different kinds of repercussions, perhaps the stock market, perhaps how large oil corporations run daily gas station operations, as hypothetical.

It spells out there may be a desire to have transparency in a region that historically has plausibly been shrouded to the world outside of it and not been transparent by nature.

What is needed is needed; as far as trying to get a hold of secret mystical mysteries out of anything and everything east of the east coast of China to fulfill ambitions of new museum exhibits, those might have to be left out of the equation, reference peace and economic equilibrium, at least for now, especially if they are not necessary and going to upset the natives there.



Posted the evening of April 16th 2016 E.S.T.


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