{"id":21435,"date":"2014-01-03T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T02:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21435"},"modified":"2014-01-06T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T19:31:44","slug":"what-kind-of-people-are-we-dealing-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21435","title":{"rendered":"What Kind Of People Are We Dealing With?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/01\/06\/us-korea-north-jang-idUSBREA050DP20140106\">Reuters<\/a> is now claiming that the story below is not true. It may or may not be, but it is worrisome that the world community&#8217;s opinion of Kim Jong Un is such that the story was believed.<\/p>\n<p>Last week a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/the-big-story\/asia-report\/china\/story\/jangs-execution-bodes-ill-china-20131224\">Singapore Newspaper<\/a> reported that <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"North Korea\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0333333333,125.75&amp;spn=10.0,10.0&amp;q=39.0333333333,125.75 (North%20Korea)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">North Korean<\/a> leader <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Kim Jong-un\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kim_Jong-un\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Kim Jong Un<\/a> executed his uncle <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Jang Sung-taek\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jang_Sung-taek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Jang Song Thaek<\/a>, the No. 2 man in North Korea, by throwing him and his five top aides into a cage with 120 starving dogs. That is barbaric.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from that, the execution is a problem for relations between North Korea and China.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>First, China&#8217;s own security is at risk. The erratic and ruthless behaviour of Mr Kim Jong Un suggests that China should not underrate the likelihood of a nuclear threat from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pyongyang\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=39.0194444444,125.738055556&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=39.0194444444,125.738055556 (Pyongyang)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Pyongyang<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Internet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Internet<\/a> version of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global Times\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Global Times<\/a> carried an article last Monday by Lieutenant-General Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nanjing\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=32.05,118.766666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=32.05,118.766666667 (Nanjing)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Nanjing<\/a> Greater Military Region, saying that the recent incident showed North Korea had become increasingly provocative and was getting out of (Chinese) control. He urged a complete reassessment of security threats originating from that direction.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Second, China&#8217;s political and strategic influence on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Korean Peninsula\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=37.5,127.0&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=37.5,127.0 (Korean%20Peninsula)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Korean peninsula<\/a> has been drastically reduced. China was widely considered to be able to rein in the unruly Kim regime, thus acting as a force for peace in the region. But it now appears China&#8217;s influence over its neighbour is close to zero.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>China needs to learn an important lesson from this&#8211;when you lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas!<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_h.png?x-id=c81a8750-8893-4ff7-b4e0-99a1100e55f8\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters is now claiming that the story below is not true. It may or may not be, but it is worrisome that the world community&#8217;s opinion of Kim Jong Un is such that the story was believed. Last week a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=21435\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1227,253,6878,6877,6875,6876,1591,1593,6879,1590,2408,1592],"class_list":["post-21435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-asia","tag-china","tag-global-times","tag-jang-song-thaek","tag-jang-sung-taek","tag-kim-il-sung","tag-kim-jong-il","tag-kim-jong-un","tag-korean-peninsula","tag-north-korea","tag-pyongyang","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21435"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21480,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21435\/revisions\/21480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}