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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 01-Mar-05
Japan blocks most North Korean ships from its ports

Web Log - March, 2005

Japan blocks most North Korean ships from its ports

The Japanese, infuriated by North Korean abductions in the 1970s, is imposing a "pollution insurance," effective today on large ships entering Japanese harbors.

Although North Korea is not mentioned in the law, its clear intention is to impose economic sanctions on North Korea in retaliation for the of ten or twenty Japanese citizens in the 1970s.

Megumi Yokota pictured before her abduction in 1977 <font size=-2>(Source: BBC)</font>

Megumi Yokota pictured before her abduction in 1977 (Source: BBC)

The Japanese are particularly infuriated over Megumi Yokota who was just 12 years old when the Koreans abducted her on a Japanese beach. Japan has demanded return of the abductees' remains, and tensions skyrocketed in December when DNA tests on the bones returned by Korea turned out to be two people, neither of the Yokota.

Two weeks ago, when North Korea pulled out of nuclear non-proliferation talks and announced that it already had nuclear weapons, tensions in the region began to increase on an almost daily basis, and it appeared that North Korean President Kim Jong-il was headed for pre-emptive war.

Last week, it was revealed that Kim's reason for pulling out of the talks was Japan's insistence on discussing the abductions. North Korea relieved tensions a bit, by expressing a willingness to return to the talks on the condition that the abductions be excluded.

North Korea has repeatedly said that any economic sanctions directed at them would be considered an "act of war," echoing Japanese actions in the 1930s, when economic sanctions against Japan eventually led to Japan's bombing of Pearl Harbor.

But Japan has been applying sanctions without calling them sanctions. It has already shut down the practice of allowing Koreans living in Japan from sending cash back to their relatives in Korea.

Generational Dynamics predicts that there will be major regional wars to reunite North and South Korea, to reunite Taiwan with China, and to give China and Korea revenge for Japan's actions in World War II. The statements we've seen recently have been getting increasingly ominous. China and North Korea are becoming increasingly militaristic, and are mobilizing for war. We can't predict when those wars will occur, but the kinds of statements we're hearing are typical of the things we would be hearing if these countries are planning a pre-emptive attack soon, with North Korea's statements considerably more ominous than China's. (01-Mar-05) Permanent Link
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