Lee makes 1st visit by South Korean leader to Myanmar since 1983 assassination attempt May 14, 2012

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar tightened security for a visit by President Lee Myung-bak on Monday, the first by a South Korean leader since an assassination attempt by North Korean commandos nearly 30 years ago. 

Truckloads of riot police were stationed at major intersections in Naypyitaw and around Yangon, where Lee was to visit Tuesday and meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Security was particularly tight at the Martyr's Mausoleum, a monument to Suu Kyi's father where then-South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan was nearly killed in 1983.

Myanmar has the 10^th largest known reserves for natural gas in the world.

Japan imports 90 percent of Middle East crude through the Straits of Malacca. Up to 80 percent of China’s crude imports are delivered via the narrow and congested waterway.

China and Japan have a critical stake in the busy Malacca Straits.                                                                                  China, Japan, S.Korea agree to start free-trade talks

May 13, 2012

The leaders of China, Japan and South Korea agreed Sunday to start talks this year on a free-trade area, saying it would boost the economies of the entire region.  Beijing China- "Northeast Asia is the most economically vibrant region in the world. So there is huge potential for our three countries to have closer trade and investment cooperation," China's Wen told reporters.  He was speaking in contrast to the slow global recovery and an overall rise in trade protectionism.

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2011 which saw natural disasters in Japan, Thailand and Pakistan - estimated to have caused $260 billion in losses, were also a warning that inter-linked regional economies remain highly vulnerable to sudden shocks.  

 

- Ms.Suu Kyi is the widow of a British national, Michael Aris, and their two children were born abroad and do not live in Myanmar.

She's been attacked once by junta supporters. Could it happen again?

‘They tried to assassinate her then…and today…the military hardliners still want her dead. They won’t do it themselves, but they’ll use drunken thugs like they did in Depayin,’ says Moe Zaw Oo, joint secretary of the exiled branch of the National League for Democracy.

"It's nerve-racking. We are concerned for her safety," said Soe Aung, with the Bangkok-based Forum for Democracy in Burma.

"Senior military officials are consolidating their grip on power and seeking to stamp out the voices of those seeking democracy," he told Radio Free Asia.

Where is her hometown?

Her hometown is Yangon. That's where she would be laid to rest, if they assassinate her. And that's where UK Prime Minister David Cameron would travel to pay his respects and to show solidarity with what she stood for.

Is this all Supposition?

I don't think so.

Thai meteorologist and seismologist Dr. Smith Dharmasaroja.
In recent interviews, the Thai scientist has warned that the epicentre of the next earthquake would be further north than 2004's temblors, which brings the Straits of Malacca and - more disturbingly - Singapore and Malaysia into range.
"The latest data shows that the epicentre is moving north towards the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and if an earthquake takes place in this area, this would cause greater effects in the Straits of Malacca than what happened in 2004.  The Deadliest Tsunami in History?

The number of people killed in December 2004's tsunami disaster topped 295,000.

Hope nothing happens,

Should that be his end, it would explain - he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

Daniel 11:20

Mid-Point - March 21st, 2013

God Bless,

Gail