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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
If China ever wanted a positive public relations win they would invade North Korea and execute that family loudly and bloodily on state t.v.
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Yes, but we both know the odds of this are slim to none. If anything, this wacky country is exactly what China wants. It will do very little until the problem becomes a threat directly to China.
China wants and needs N.Korea. With the emergence of S.Korea from a back water dictatorship to a Asian powerhouse economy, the Chinese need to marginalize. The weight of N.Korea attacking helps temper S.Korea, by keeping them focused on their crazy brother to the north. Therefore the South has less time to worry about what China is up to.
South Korea has shown itself to have extreme upside economically. That is a threat to China. A unified Korea may become the Asian Germany. That would be of great concern to China, as they are the local uncontested bully (Japan's policy of defense takes the only real competition out of it). Also, with the US being good friends with Japan and Korea, and historically all three disliking each other, it is easy to see why propping up these nuts is good for China.
Hey the US did it with Iraq for a long time, until Iraq started getting a bit too greedy. We'll see if this plays out similarly, but somehow I doubt these gang members who call themselves beloved leaders are dumb enough to do that.