© Jacky Chen / ReutersA North Korean soldier looks out the window of a guard tower, on the banks of Yalu River, about 100 km from the North Korean town of Sinuiju.
Berlin supports the joint Russian-Chinese initiative for a "double freeze" to resolve the Korean crisis, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. The plan involves freezing missile launches in North Korea and South Korea's drills with the US.
Germany "understands and endorses the 'double freeze' initiative, and is willing to continue to work with Beijing to promote a peaceful settlement of the DPRK [North Korea] nuclear issue," the top German diplomat said in a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday.
"Germany appreciates the important role China plays in tackling the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula," Gabriel
added, as cited by China's Foreign Ministry.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang said that thanks to efforts from all sides, tensions on the Korean Peninsula were showing signs of easing, but that the "August crisis" is still not over.
China, North Korea's main ally and trading partner, insists on a peaceful solution to the Korean Peninsula nuclear issue, and is willing to see Germany play an active role in the settlement of the crisis, Wang noted.
The Russian-Chinese initiative of "double freezing," put forward by the Russian and Chinese foreign ministers on July 4, would cease any missile launches and any nuclear tests in Pyongyang, as well as large-scale military exercises by Washington and Seoul.
"Russia together with China developed a very smart plan which proposes 'double freezing': [North Korean leader] Kim Jong-un should freeze nuclear tests and stop launching any types of ballistic missiles, while US and South Korea should freeze large-scale drills which are used as a pretext for the North's tests," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
said last week.
Russia and China have a "range of proposals" aimed at preventing what could become "one of the deepest conflicts" and a "crisis with a big number of casualties," he noted.
Russia has called for conditions to be laid out to bring the North Korean leadership to the negotiating table for the resumption of the Six-Party talks.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel also said that there was no military solution to the North Korean issue, adding that "an escalation of the rhetoric is the wrong answer."
"I don't see a military solution to this conflict," Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Friday.
"Germany will be intensively involved in any non-military solutions," she said. "But an escalation of the rhetoric is the wrong answer."
Earlier this month, the UN Security Council unanimously agreed to impose more restrictive measures on Pyongyang, banning exports of coal, iron, lead and seafood. The move came in response to North Korea's latest missile launches in July, which it, as well as South Korea and the US, claimed were intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) tests.
2 reasons , basically one. The entire planet is in deep shit, including all of us on it. First of all lighten up, my mother is going to be dead in 8 years and I'm cool about it (4 months ago I was a mental wreck).
So, let's recap : Problem #1 : Iran. I mean the people just want to use old technology nuclear power plants to power up their country, like the U.S. does, I mean we are talking like fireplaces, they are already outdated, and Israel is afraid that they are going to blow them out of the sky ! Yes, true you can make a nuclear bomb out of depleted uranium but I forgot, we live in the safest planet in the universe. For the record (confirmed) ; I learned that back in 1991 the U.S. got it's first "warning shot" in the parking lot of one of the then 2 twin towers that blew up 6 (!!!) subbasements. Dudes , in short a nuclear weapon was smuggled into one of the twin towers back in 1991 !!! So, Iran is the problem today ? Ha, ha , ha.
Problem #2 and far more important : Although I was pretty messed up this summer, I haven't seen such high temperatures both where I live and in the States including the fires in a decade (!!!). Thermodynamics 101 : You need more power to cool down a place than to heat it up. Surprise !!! Experience: It's easier to face the cold with a light garment, anything, than high temperatures. Ask your troops in the middle east...And water won't cut it people. You need both internal and external cooling.
Problem #3 : Remember , the movie "The fourth kind" ? I've been into this matter for years...NYC practically runs America , right ? I mean we are talking 14 mil. right ? Where I am, we are talking about 4-5 mil. For the first time I counted 4 U.F.O.s and from the way they were flying, they weren't ours...
Problem #4 , also very important. The moon is their closest base, let's stop kidding around. From a military point of view that means that we are within firing distance. Their firing distance, not ours. Once, we get out there we really don't know what we will be up against. I'm afraid we will learn the hard way.
So finally and I apologize for the long post but I admit I stepped on too many toes but I saw it coming : In a desperate effort to unite U.S. and European Jews, the one side f***d the other. What do you think David Rockefeller Sr. would do after 9/11 ? And now the whole world is laughing at us. They are laughing at us...
Thing is it was my idea for the Russians to stop the U.S. in Allepo. Second time it happens in less than a hundred years and even protocol wasn't broken. I just hopped...I sent an apologizing e-mail to the Kremlin which of course was my on-line suicide and game over.
So ned, our generation failed man...because we tried to play Gods in God's land man. HFL : That's for you and your kind...It's not the Beetle's era anymore man. Nice, killing 22 kids dude and letting Diana bleed on that ambulance for an hour and a half. What was the problem, there was a traffic jam ?