RE: North Korea Aiming Nuclear Test Towards US
January 25, 2013 at 9:13 pm
(This post was last modified: January 25, 2013 at 9:15 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(January 25, 2013 at 9:02 pm)Dee Dee Ramone Wrote: [quote='Chuck' pid='391934' dateline='1359161522']This is all speculation. A war between those nations leads to the last part of the world war trilogy. China and the US both prefer trade and peace. North-Korea isn't worth the fight.
Both China and US prefer peace so long as core security interest is not at stake.
Trust me, China thinks keeping foreign bases away from its border to be such a core security interest that it would definitely accept any rupture with the US to fight over it. It has proven this by fighting the US in Korean war for precisely this reason. After the US landed in Inchon and started pushing North Korean forces out of South Korea and back into North Korea, China repeatedly warned Truman and McCarthur through both open and private channels to not come close to the Yalu river. McCarthur ignored it. China came into North Korea to fight the US and pushed American forces back out of North Korea. And China did this when she was much weaker in relationship to the US back in 1950 then she is now. Now that China is much stronger in relation to both the US and all other countries around her then she was in 1950, I have zero doubt China will fight again over North Korea if she perceive the chance that North Korea could come under US influence.
