Originally Posted by
Athos
It's obvious North Korea is run by a madman. There's no possibility North Korea will overrun the South. With today's technology, any troop movement southward towards Seoul will be immediately detected.
China's fear is that an attack by North Korea will result in hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of refugees crossing into China.
The most likely scenario is the military, the only well-fed group in North Korea, will overthrow the ruling family, and make an accommodation with the West.
China will not be happy with this, but a unified Korea will be a boon to China's economy.
I concur with this assessment. That is exactly why the Kim regime is doing these provovations . Each incident is a metal on the chest of Kim Jong Un towards his eventual succession . It is a desperate attempt at consolidation of power before Kim Jong mentally IL leaves this earth on his one way trip to Hades.
