Dartz Wrote:One might argue that Trump forced china to solve the problem.
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One might, but from where I sit it looks like China washed its hands of the entire mess and punted the ball back to the USA.
If there is a war, I would not be at all surprised if at the end of it China tells the USA "you made this mess, you clean it up, we aren't providing any humanitarian relief, we're busy building a wall along our border". Then the USA has to decide between spending even more money, or pissing off Seoul while letting thousands of Koreans die from starvation. (This possibility assumes a non-nuclear confrontation, of course. If even one nuke is dropped, all bets are off.)
EDIT:
There are two recent CBC News analyses that may be of interest here:
- Odds of a North Korea nuclear 'nightmare' are slim, but here's what to watch for tl;dr: Full-bore war is unlikely in the short term; there haven't been any massive troop movements - yet.
- Kim Jong-un views nuclear weapons as a way to escape fate of Saddam and Gadhafi tl;dr: Exactly what it says in the title.
Rob Kelk
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