US Carrier Visit A Dilemma For China
This weekend’s arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Yellow Sea poses a dilemma for Beijing: Should it protest angrily and aggravate ties with Washington, or quietly accept the presence of a key symbol of American military pre-eminence off Chinese shores?
The USS George Washington, accompanied by escort ships, is to take part in military drills with South Korea following North Korea’s shelling of a South Korean island Tuesday that was one of the most serious confrontations since the Korean War a half-century ago.
It’s a scenario China has sought to prevent. Only four months ago, Chinese officials and military officers shrilly warned Washington against sending a carrier into the Yellow Sea for an earlier set of exercises. Some said it would escalate tensions after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship blamed on North Korea. Others went further, calling the carrier deployment a threat to Chinese security.
North Korea, by contrast, warned Friday that the U.S.-South Korean military drills were pushing the peninsula to the “brink of war.”
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Is North Korea provoking our President? Here’s an interesting piece I posted back in 2009, which includes speculation and reasoning behind Kim Jong-Il’s provocation of our President. http://www.asiancemagazine.com/news/2009/04/29/north-korea-provoking-our-president
What your source states is the following:
He (Kim Jong Il) would like the Obama administration to engage his regime in bilateral talks — excluding South Korea, Japan and other U.S. partners — and then offer it economic and political bribes in exchange for North Korea releasing the U.S. hostages and shutting down Yongbyon again. Mr. Kim has already succeeded in selling a Yongbyon closure to two U.S. presidents, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush; why not, he must reason, try for a three-peat?