{"id":73619,"date":"2017-07-26T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73619"},"modified":"2017-07-26T11:08:17","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T15:08:17","slug":"china-strengthens-north-korean-border-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73619","title":{"rendered":"China strengthens North Korean border defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=56833\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-56833\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kim-Jong-Un-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-56833\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kim-Jong-Un-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kim-Jong-Un-277x333.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kim-Jong-Un.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/chinas-army-looks-getting-ready-175936611.html?soc_src=mail&amp;soc_trk=ma\">Business Insider<\/a>, China appears to be expecting trouble from their North Korean neighbors;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A report from The Wall Street Journal says that China has established a new border-defense brigade, implemented 24-hour video surveillance of the border, and constructed bunkers to protect from possible nuclear or chemical attacks.<\/p>\n<p>China conducted a live-fire drill in June and July with helicopter gunships and armored infantry units, including a simulated battle with artillery, tanks, and helicopters, according to The Journal. The nature of these military exercises goes beyond securing a border, and they mimic fighting a nuclear-armed adversary.<\/p>\n<p>While China and North Korea exist on paper as allies, Sim Tack, an expert on North Korea at Stratfor, a geopolitical-analysis firm, previously told Business Insider that China would not likely defend Pyongyang from a US-led attack and instead try to prevent or dissuade the US from taking such a step.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seein&#8217;s how the North Koreans have thousands of conventional artillery pieces pointed at Seoul, South Korea, on a hair trigger, an unprovoked US invasion seems unlikely. <\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/07\/25\/asia\/china-north-korea-border\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The North Korea border region is a highly strategic one for China, and has seen conflict during World War II and the Korean War, but one of Beijing&#8217;s chief concerns is not military forces pouring across the border, but refugees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;d be worried about a couple of million grass-eaters who decide to graze on my land, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier this year, the Chinese state-run tabloid Global Times warned &#8220;if the North Korean nuclear issue boils over, a war on the peninsula is unavoidable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The war will bring more risks than the tough sanctions on Pyongyang could to China,&#8221; the paper said in an editorial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If China does not tackle the conundrum now, it will face more difficult choices in the future.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to David for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Business Insider, China appears to be expecting trouble from their North Korean neighbors; A &hellip; <a title=\"China strengthens North Korean border defense\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73619\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China strengthens North Korean border defense<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}