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Published: 2017-04-26
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I I'm Peterlee and this is news birds China watch this week we're at the tipping point on North Korea and who's lying about that aircraft carrier an important week actually important day is coming up for North Korea the U. S. special envoy for North Korea Joseph Ian will be in Japan on April twenty fifth for joint meetings with ROK and Japanese officials April twenty fifth is
north Korean army day which is considered to be a likely day for North Korea to do a nuclear test so Eunice visit is an indication that the US and its allies are planning a joint response in case of a provocation the White House also revealed Donald Trump will be consulting with prime minister of Japan Shinzo Ave and then president of China xi Jinping by phone on
the evening of April twenty third which is April twenty four easier time undoubtedly they will be gaming North Korea and what they're going to say and do if attest happens Chinese because I state media provided a very strong indication that the P. R. C. would respond to any sixth nuclear test by supporting a UN security council sanction that cuts off petroleum products to North Korea in
a sign North Korea might be taking this threat seriously the DPRK apparently signaled it could do very well without Chinese petroleum products thank you by cutting back supply in Pyongyang and spiking prices over eighty percent so you've got a U. S. Revlon US attack in case of an I CBM launch as I discussed last week you got a Chinese redline petroleum sanctions in case of a
nuclear test where's that leaves things as far as China is concerned it wants the US to negotiate with the DPRK as far as the DPRK is concerned it says it won't negotiate as long as Washington refuses to abandon its hostile policy towards Pyongyang in %HESITATION related news according to the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang which handles U. S. DPRK matters North Korea detained in American citizen a
professor named Tony Kim who is trying to fly home in the past North Korea has used such detentions to provide a reason for the U. S. to send an envoy to spring the hostage in two thousand nine Bill Clinton beat out Al Gore to go to Pyongyang to obtain the release of two American journalists maybe this indicates Kim Julian is looking for an American official or
ex official to talk to directly if something happens on April twenty fifth it's big news if nothing happens on April twenty fifth that's news to well April twenty fifth is the day after the show tapes and the day before it airs so whatever happens or doesn't on April twenty fifth well that's for next week's show assuming we're all here meanwhile let's talk about the big deal
from last week who's lying about the Carl Vinson this Carl Vinson the aircraft carrier and its associated carrier strike group if you've been following the news you know there was a big kerfuffle over the Carl Vincent's location trump said it was steaming toward North Korea as a show of force to demonstrate that his administration is serious about confronting him Julian then it turned out the Carl
Vinson was no where near Korea in fact it was down by Australia the media take away in never trump American media trump is a liar and an idiot he doesn't know where his aircraft carrier is the south Korean press and presidential candidates picked up on this theme and it became a big international to do what's unpack this a little bit team trump weren't the only people
bragging about the Vince a bunch of people in the U. S. military said it was headed north important people exhibit a they pull mine announcement from the U. S. third fleet admiral Harry Harris commander US Pacific command has directed the Carl Vinson strike group to sail north and report on station in the western Pacific Ocean after departing Singapore April eighth exhibit B. news confirmed by US
defense official to see and a US aircraft carrier let's strike group is headed toward the western Pacific Ocean near the Korean peninsula a U. S. defense official confirmed to CNN police on April thirteenth the official story was still that the Vinson was headed toward North Korea then on April seventeenth the publication defense news pointed to a picture that on April fifteenth the Carl Vinson was three
thousand miles away from the Korean peninsula in the sun the straight down by Indonesia Pacific command only official comment on the controversy with tweeting a seventy year old cartoon showing admiral Halsey rebutting some fake news in this case Japanese propaganda that it'd driven the third fleet out of the western Pacific in nineteen forty four we are retiring at high speed toward the Japanese fleet in an
embarrassing situation like this what does the navy do it turns to the New York times motto the truth is under attack on April twentieth The New York Times published trump unleashes the generals they don't always see the big picture it places admiral Harry Harris at the center of the Carl Vinson narrative don't let the title fool you admiral Harris is the ultimate big picture guy in
Asia admiral Harris is the commander of P. com United States Pacific command he is responsible for US military operations over half the world's surface from the US west coast over to India an up and down to the north and south poles is an admiral because pecans headquartered at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and has got lots of ships and it's always run by an animal but all
the U. S. army marine and airforce units in the region report to him including US army Korea all that stuff in Japan as well as the Pacific Fleet with the carrier strike groups and the submarines that's three hundred and seventy five thousand people he's got his own intelligence service he's also hands on in managing the US military relationship with treaty allies that's Japan South Korea the
Philippines Australia and Thailand in the Roman Empire this kinda guy was called a proconsul you can call him admiral Harris and admiral Harris knows where all his aircraft carriers are even of Donald Trump doesn't so what's the story about admiral Harris in the Carl Vinson according to The New York Times goes like this when admiral Harry be harassed junior the military's top commander in the Pacific
ordered the aircraft carrier Vincent to sail north from Singapore this month he was %HESITATION Livius to the larger and incorrect impression that he was rushing a naval strike forced to confront an increasingly belligerent North Korea navy officials said the main reason for issuing the release was to alert the families of thousands of sailors that Adonal Harris had also cancelled a port call for the ships in
Fremantle Australia where many relatives were planning to meet their loved ones admiral Harris feared that images of sailors on shore leave would be unseemly at a time when North Korea was firing missiles officials said the news release omitted any mention of a secretive naval exercise with Australia that admiral Harris never meant to suggest he was canceling navy officials said so are we to understand admiral Harris
in the words of the New York times was open Livius to trump administration plans for the Carl Vinson off Korea and simply announce the Vinson was selling to the western Pacific in order to have an excuse to cancel and unseemly port visit really this is a week even by the standards of totally in the tank national security reporting how can I be so bold as to
say this because on April twelfth admiral Harris was giving a speech in Chicago and the discussing Korean tensions he said Bruce that's why the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group is heading back to northeast Asia no admiral Harris was not %HESITATION Bolivia's to the trumpet ministrations desire for a show of force against North Korea and I think he knew that the Vincent was wanted up there
as another data point recall that on the same day April twelfth the US airforce base at Kadena in Japan which is also under admiral Harris and P. com put every plane it had on the runway in tight formation fully fueled and aren't as a show of force against North Korea it's called an elephant walk the unavoidable inference is that pay come new it was tasked with
making a big show of force to communicate US resolve on North Korea and the Vincent was supposed to be part of it to me the most likely explanation is that apple Harris knew that the USS Carl Vinson was wanted for that show force off North Korea but he didn't want to send it right away why not well my understanding of pecans priorities or something like this
okay comes most important relationships are with the militaries of treaty allies in the Pacific that's Japan Australia South Korea Thailand and the Philippines next come civilians including all those politicians who run governments around the world and in the United States and make things complicated for military people at the very bottom of the pyramid of friendship you find Chinese communists the child comes Abdul Harris is very
much the China hawk he sees his job as fighting a never ending battle against P. R. C. expansionism and aggression in Asia and to be prepared to fight and win a super mega colossal war with China for the future of the world if necessary the simplest inference would be that admiral Harris did not like the idea of canceling a military exercise with treaty ally Australia to
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