So is there finally going to be a full out war or are the military exercises/exchanges of artillery just business as usual?
Are you wishing for a war? You are a little crazy, war are not helping in any way whatsoever, all they do is destroy families.
>>2
Your first sentence had promise, but after that you went completely off-topic.
>>1
If the leaked cables are really having as debilitating an effect on America's political image as the news outlets generally say, it looks like the moment America supports a Southern retaliation Russia and the Middle East will follow China's lead in backing up the North, not to mention whoever may have been offended in Europe :x
I highly doubt China would attack America. Maybe by proxy, but never directly.
If DPRK goes down, China is inundated with refugees from the now not only impoverished but war-torn North Korea- at worst.
But, if they attack America, they lose a trade ally so huge they wouldn't recover for a hundred years.
China only allies itself with the DPRK because they don't want the inevitable economic worries that would arise from throwing them to wayside (i.e. DPRK collapses without a steady flow of Chinese exports coming in- as a result, they get a flood of poor, unskilled, uneducated immigrants, etc).
But the economic predicament resulting from attacking the US would be catastrophic for them, so they would just accept the relatively minor problems they get from the N. Korean collapse (in the case of a full blown conflict) and call it a day.
Two superpowers going at it means Mutually Assured Destruction, or damn near close. Nobody in their right (or left) mind would start a conflict like that just to defend some shitty slum-country like North Korea.
ITT writing long posts and getting no response.
Not even from Kyoumo Unko.
War is inevitable. North Korea is volatile... Interestingly though, South Korea were really the ones who started this latest issue, I think.
I mean, didn't they stubbornly continue their artillery exercise, despite the North asking them to stop?