Replying to a message of Tony Ingenoso to Gary Wiltshire:

 TI> From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

 TI> I'm not overly concerned about the DPRK...because I believe the PRC
 TI> will eventually step up and deal with that problem for us...even to
 TI> the point of using force (a staged coup perhaps) if need be.  With
 TI> the cold war over, there's not a lot of reason for them to support
 TI> the DPRK they way they did in years past.

I hope you're correct.  I read someplace recently where China developed
some temporary 'problems' that caused the flow of oil from China to the
DPRK to stop briefly a couple of times.  AFAIK there's only one such
pipeline supplier so any stoppage, however brief, would be noticed; I think
China was strongly hinting to Kim that he'd better calm down.

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