Is
this correct? Alexander Mercouris has been spectacularly wrong
recently. My own feeling is we will avoid nuclear war but the
Americans will strike the nuclear plant.The Chinese have given
indication they might look the other way
War in Korea postponed? Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe flies to Moscow to meet Putin
Alexander
Mercouris
24
Apri, 2017
Visit
of Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to Moscow suggests that war in
the Korean Peninsula is unlikely.
Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has confirmed he is flying to Moscow to
meet with Russian President Putin on 27th April 2017.
This
visit is not connected to the North Korean crisis. Abe was floating
the possibility of a summit with Putin in Moscow on 27th and 28th
April 2017 as long ago as the end of March. Rather the visit should
be seen as part of Abe’s ongoing effort to achieve a rapprochement
between Japan and Russia.
The
fact that Abe is travelling to Moscow at this time however shows that
he at least does not expect war to break out in the Korean Peninsula
over the next few days.
This
is important because to the extent that any world leader is being
kept informed by President Trump of his plans, that leader is Prime
Minister Abe. Not only are Japanese warships now confirmed to be
joining the Carl Vinson’s battle-fleet, giving the Japanese naval
command and by extension the Japanese government inside knowledge of
its moves, but President Trump has been careful to keep Prime
Minister Abe updated, and is known to have had a telephone
conversation with him on Sunday.
That
makes it even more likely that the threats and bluster coming out of
the Trump administration over the last few days are more empty bluff.
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