China Erects Fence Along N. Korea Border

[FormerDem06]

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/16/D8KPNT380.html

It's an AP story!


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Scores of soldiers have descended on farmland near the border-marking Yalu River to erect concrete barriers 8 to 15 feet tall and string barbed wire between them, farmers and visitors to the area said.

Last week, they reached Hushan, a collection of villages 12 miles inland from the border port of Dandong.

"About 100 People's Liberation Army soldiers in camouflage started building the fence four days ago and finished it yesterday," said a farmer, who only gave his surname, Ai. "I assume it was built to prevent smuggling and illegal crossing."


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[bdamomma]

1. all this fence building is disgusting why don't they try a little more

talking.

[geek tragedy]

15. With a lunatic like Kim Jong Il, who thinks he's a god? eom

[Oreo]

2. Is Tancredo there?

Lord knows there's no border fence big enough for Tommy Boy.

[saltpoint]

3. This is unhappy news. It's unhappy on the face of it, 17 years after

the Berlin Wall came down, and it's unhappy because it hints that China is guessing there will be a flood of North Korean refugees trying to cross their border.

[Nolo_Contendre]

4. Fast work. Freeprertards will want to award the Chinese

the contract to construct a fence along the US-Mexico border.

[Taoschick]

5. The article

Gives several reasons, including a desire by China to define the border in case NK is absorbed by SK. It will also prevent a huge influx of North Koreans trying to escape into China once the sanctions kick in.

[Richard D]

6. Didn't work last time they tried it.

[bumbaklaat]

17. Great Wall redux

saw this in my local paper:
all it takes is a pair of wire cutters or good blanket to make this one fail...

[Bonhomme Richard]

7. My take. N. Korea is about to be pounded and..............

China is taking steps to restrict the tide of refugees that are going to be attempting to cross the border. I think China has been given the heads up and are OK with it.

[denverbill]

9. No way.

North Korea can pound Seoul with 100,000 artillery shells an hour. Unless we are planning to evacuate Seoul, I wouldn't count on any military strike by the US.

[sfwriter]

10. My first thought as well...

And who says the US will do the pounding? Does anyone think China wants another potentially unstable nuclear power on it's border? Let's see it has Pakistan, India, and Russia as neighbors already. That's one hot neighborhood.

It may just be CYA as well.

[David__77]

8. N. Korea doesn't need China.

This isn't the conventional wisdom, but it's true. N. Korea may have to cut its extravagant military and bureaucracy, but it can feed most of its people and there is little social instability. I'm sure they could do their own boatlift to Japan if they wished...

[sfwriter]

11. Well China has cut food aid

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2564194

"But South Korea, a key donor, stopped aid after the North fired a series of missiles in July, and supplies from China, the North's main foreign food donor, are one-third of last year's levels, said Mike Huggins, a WFP spokesman who just returned from a five-day visit to North Korea.

The United States also has stopped donating to the WFP's North Korea operations, but says it will continue other food aid to the North.

The aid shortages come on top of the North's decision to accept less food from the World Food Program. A decision that means about 4 million people fewer are being fed this year, Huggins said."

[geek tragedy]

12. N. Korea can't feed its own people now.

Moreover, the dear Leader has to get his DVD's and expensive bottles of wine from elsewhere.

[David__77]

14. I'm not so sure.

I suspect that the food crisis was always exaggerated by the N. Korea authorities to get aid from others so that it could divert its own resources into military efforts.

[katinmn]

13. Walls, Walls, Walls. Walls are the signs of failed leaders

Walls in Gaza fencing in the Palestinians, walls between US-Mexico, walls between China and North Korea.

Bet there are more walls, too.

May mass international sentiment force out all these archaic thinkers and get some real leaders.

[yellowcanine]

16. Maybe we could outsource the Great Wall of Mexico to the Chinese.