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Creative Speculation

In reply to the discussion: Is this possible? [View all]
 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
2. Absolutely - Russia has MIRVs, and just opened a rail connection to NK
Mon Oct 7, 2013, 02:21 AM
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/22/us-nkorea-rail-russia-idUSBRE98L0BB20130922

Russia re-opens railway link with North Korea

RAJIN, North Korea | Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:19am EDT

(Reuters) - Russia re-opened a railway link with North Korea on Sunday, holding out the prospect of increased trade for the reclusive nation with its biggest neighbors after years of international sanctions.

Impoverished and squeezed by sanctions for conducting a series of nuclear and missile tests, North Korea has reached out to Moscow and Beijing for help to fill the gap left by the drying up of South Korean and U.S. economic assistance.

The head of Russia's state railway monopoly said the 54-km (34-mile) track from the Russian eastern border town of Khasan to the North Korean port of Rajin would export coal and import goods from South Korea and other Asian countries.

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"This is part of a trans-Korean transport line that will link ... this region with Europe via Russian territory," Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin said on a visit to Rajin to mark the completion of the railway line.
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USA's messing around in the backyards of China, Russia et al are creating alliances that are not in the USA's best interests -

but the USA doesn't seen to realize this, or care.

Something is gonna pop in the future;

hope I'm underground by then.

(sigh)

CC

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