@Noll:
Few weeks ago my Korean language and history Professor said something interesting during his lesson: He thinks North Korea dictatorship is possible because an after-war scenario would see Korea re-unified and in the sovereign of South Korea. Now let’s see what happens after the charismatic leader died.
I think China will try to annex North Korea without a war.
Without getting into politics I can say that would probably not happen.
China probably won’t try to annex Korea for historic and cultural reasons of which getting American money would be a huge contributing factor. North and South Korea would also, likewise, not engage in hostilities so long as we keep shovelling money into their pockets.
The problem, as I see it, is that the Bank of the United States of America is close to defaulting and without our incentive to stay peaceful, there might be fundamental redistribution of power. Just from a socio-economic viewpoint, not that I’m a socialogist or economics professor - I can balance a checkbook and that’s better than 90% of the high school graduates these days, but that’s about as far as I can go!
