re <<China and North Korea: I have heard, that part of the reason that China does not rein them in, is because they don't want a lot of North Koreans streaming over the border into China>>
perhaps it is best not to create still more refugees, maybe not just for china, but arguably for the planet
possibly time should resolve the issue of nk / sk, as it might have iraq, libya, syria, yemen, ...
and ... yes, it could be that nukes complicates the equation further
folks are correct that nk is a problem for sk, and japan, and an issue for china
indubitably team usa made nk its own problem, as it did afghanistan, iraq, libya, syria, yemen, ... georgia, ukraine, russia, china
re <<They know how strong Korea has gotten and North Korea would just make them that much stronger plus extend the border with China by double.>>
... not quite the view from my perch, but do not intend to spend much time on the subject, just pointing out whatever rationale attributable to china goes twice for japan, and last i heard, discounting all anti-piracy / anti-terror counter efforts, china had even never tried to colonise korea. china must have been one of the earliest trading outfits.
advise sk and nk to sign up for china obor. unlike the mexico's wall, the koreans would make money from the effort.
re <<I am very worried about either China, or North Korea destroying South Korea.>>
china might, but if so, only inadvertent.
usa and japan might, w/ more intention resulting in unintended but acceptable consequences.
only nk would deliberately do so with intended consequences, perhaps out of fear, for they certainly have historical reasons to fear, as they were tee-ed up as a pilot-run for the later and larger episode of proxy war in vietnam, that which destroyed cambodia. your starting sentiment is commendable, however, unlike what elmat intoned, we best appreciate history, that which threads seemingly isolated events into a script. |
