[Shadow_Group] Fw: China Moves 30,000 Troops

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rense.com

China Moves 30,000 Troops 
To N Korean Border 
Special to World Tribune.com
East Asia Intel.com 
10-20-4
 
China's sudden transfer of more than 30,000 Chinese troops to border
areas with North Korea is apparently intended to block a massive influx
of North Korean defectors, a Japanese newspaper reported on Oct. 7. 
  
The North Korean army has also dispatched elite forces along the border
in response to China's deployment, the Sankei Shimbun reported, citing
sources informed on Chinese issues. 
  
The Japanese government has confirmed military movements along the
Sino-North Korean border by using satellite photographs and is monitoring
the situation using its intelligence network. 
  
The deployment of Chinese troops was so sudden that there were not enough
barracks available and soldiers are being quartered in farmhouses. The
rapid deployment was ordered because of growing signs in North Korea of
an impending mass defection, the newspaper reported. 
  
The troop movements followed widespread rumors that North Korean soldiers
manning the border would flee the North en masse. 
  
Chinese troops were sent to the region ahead of the winter season when
North Koreans can easily cross the frozen river into China, the newspaper
reported. It quoted sources as saying that China is concerned about the
possibility that armed North Korean troops might escape due to food
shortage and assault homes and citizens in local cities bordering the
North. 
  
A diplomatic source in South Korea also said the military movements by
China and North Korea seemed aimed at blocking mass defections of North
Koreans. 
  
The Sanhe-Kaishantun-Nanping region in which the Chinese troops were
deployed is near one of main routes through which North Korean escapees
can make their way to China, according to the South Korean sources. North
Koreans can cross the narrow river with relative ease, especially when it
is frozen. 
  
The report also raised that possibility the deployment was in response to
preparations against a possible civil war in North Korea over who would
be the country's next leader. 
  
Meanwhile, the South Korea Defense Ministry said China would send about
400,000 troops to fight alongside North Korea should war break out on the
Korean peninsula. 
  
China rescued North Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War, sending some 1
million troops to fight with North Korea against South Korea and the
United States. 
  
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dissent, who cannot cope with turmoil, and who believe that the people of
America are ready to support repression as long as it is done with a
quiet voice and a business suit." -- Former New York Mayor John V.
Lindsay 
  
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