{"id":23822,"date":"2017-05-01T13:47:01","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23822"},"modified":"2017-05-01T13:47:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T18:47:01","slug":"korea-times-china-bracing-for-emergency-situation-involving-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23822","title":{"rendered":"Korea Times: “China Bracing For Emergency Situation Involving North Korea”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Korea Times: “China Bracing For Emergency Situation Involving North Korea”<\/a><\/h3>\n
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With the North Korean situation tense after Friday’s latest failed missile attempt, the South Korea’s Korea Times reports<\/a> that a Chinese town near the border with North Korea is “urgently” recruiting Korean-Chinese interpreters, “stirring speculation that China is bracing for an emergency situation involving its nuclear-armed neighbor.”<\/div>\n
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The Korea Times cites The Oriental Daily, a Hong Kong-based news outlet, which reportedly published the story on Apr. 27, including a photo of a Chinese government document ordering the town of Dandong to recruit an unspecified number of Korean-Chinese interpreters to work at 10 departments in the town, including border security, public security, trade, customs and quarantine. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The document did not specify the reason behind the unusual, large-scale recruiting. But experts and local citizens said the move indicated that China was bracing for a possible military clash between the United States and North Korea.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Korean outlet goes on to speculate that this “might trigger a huge exodus of North Koreans to border towns in China.”<\/p>\n

Whether this dismal scenario will become a reality is largely up to North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n

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U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that the world’s superpower will strike North Korea’s nuclear facilities if Kim proceeds with a sixth nuclear test or test fires an intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Dandong administration also has ordered its officials to work rotating night shifts since April 25, according to South Korea’s news agency Yonhap.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, China has dismissed recent reports that it has sent 150,000 additional troops to its border with the North.<\/p>\n

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