The Russia-China Plan For North Korea - By Pepe Escobar
Moscow has been busy building agreements that would extend Eurasian connectivity eastward. The question is how to convince the DPRK to play along
It’s all about the Trans-Korean Railway
In sharp contrast to the Trump administration and the Beltway’s bellicose rhetoric, what “RC” proposes are essentially 5+1 talks (North Korea, China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, plus the US) on neutral territory, as confirmed by Russian diplomats. In Vladivostok, Putin went out of his way to defuse military hysteria and warn that stepping beyond sanctions would be an “invitation to the graveyard.” Instead, he proposed business deals.
Largely unreported by Western corporate media, what happened in Vladivostok is really ground-breaking. Moscow and Seoul agreed on a trilateral trade platform, crucially involving Pyongyang, to ultimately invest in connectivity between the whole Korean peninsula and the Russian Far East.
Full article :
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47816.htm
Another rational opinion from John Pilger ....... really it is all down to common sense when you find out what the background is to Korean history, certainly since 1945.
Dangerous Times: North Korea, China and the Threat of Nuclear War and Accident By John Pilger and T.J. Coles
T.J. Coles: What is the threat from North Korea?
The threat is from the United States, which for more than two generations has bullied and provoked North Korea.
The U.S. continues to provoke North Korea with military exercises near its borders. It also fails to live up to diplomatic agreements. Western media continue to distort the chronology of cause and effect, inverting reality to claim that North Korea is provoking the West. John Pilger, author of "The Coming War on China," talks to T.J. Coles about the situation.
Full interview:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47763.htm
