China-Korea Relations

China would fuck NK's shit up the second they stopped being useful to them and that use is acting as a buffer between them and South Korea (America's springboard)

But North Korea would never support the US for as long as SK exists and until the US allows them to have a nuclear program. Which will never happen.

On the flip side of that, the second North Korea makes a move to instigate SK/Japan/US and approach the point of no return, China would be the ones to slap them down first. They have no interest in starting a war they don't believe they're ready for. Not while they're still profiting from the US's trade.

The Chinese will be the ones to determine if/when the confrontation is going to occur and they'd never allow Kim Jung Dipshit to fuck it up.

>>1555616
Pretty much this
>>1555632
China has the most to lose (besides the Koreas obviously) if NK goes off the deep end. China would probably destroy NK and establish their own government in Pyeongyang before anything drastic would happen to South Korea.

What do you think would happen if Slim Kim and the Juche Pucche Party Posse get deposed and China steps in and sets up a puppet regime? How would the international community react? How would America react?

I really think Best Korea having a meltdown is the likeliest scenario to draw the US and China into a hot war. The way I see it going down would be: policy hawks in the CIA/NSA/Pentagon keep pushing for missions to destabilize the Chinese puppet regime in order to set up their own puppet regime, while whatever administration is in power keeps calling for free and general elections. Meanwhile S.Korea is pitching a fit and every month that goes by without reunification they get more and more rabid: putting pressure on diplomatic channels, staging protests, maybe even lauching a few of their own covert ops. Give or take a decade of this proxy war and eventually China goes hot and invades S. Korea or sinks a US ship or something and then everything goes belly up.

>>1555616
China would stand with the DPRK against Western and Japanese imperialism no matter what the scenario

>>1555704
Is South Korea really that eager for reunification?
I know it´s a strong economy and all but that would be a really heavy burden

>>1555704
South Korea is pretty lukewarm to North Korea in general, except where its military threat is concerned. North Korea is a burden most South Koreans wouldn't fight for. North Korea being a good obedient puppet state of China instead of Juche nonsense is actually the most win-win scenario that I can imagine, actually.

>>1555616
>China's relationship with North Korea has not been rocked in the last 60 years, even when NK succeeded with nuclear tests and the world threw a fit.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/satellite-imagery-suggests-china-is-secretly-punishing-north-korea/2016/06/30/8638d8d6-3ee8-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html?utm_term=.cb3795ce161b
>Following North Korea’s latest nuclear test, in January, trade over the China-North Korea border dropped dramatically, according to newly released satellite imagery. The revelation has led experts to conclude that Beijing has been quietly punishing Kim by cutting off the flow of funds to his regime.

>There’s no question that the China-North Korea relationship has been strained since Kim assumed power in 2011. Against Beijing’s wishes, the young leader has revved up North Korea’s pace of missile tests and detonated two nuclear devices, one in 2013 and then again this January. In 2013, Kim executed his uncle Jang Song Thaek, who had been China’s main contact in Pyongyang.

>After the latest nuclear explosion, which Pyongyang claimed was a hydrogen bomb, Secretary of State John F. Kerry publicly called on China to end “business as usual” with North Korea. Publicly, Beijing rejected being told by the United States how to handle its client state. Behind the scenes, it appears Beijing was doing just that.

>>1555865
Essentially, OP is ignorant. As usual.

>>1555784

No they aren't.

In fact, no one wants North Korea- it offers no real strategic value whatsoever.

All it has to offer the world is millions upon millions of unskilled, malnourished refugees.

>>1555704
CHina would shill out NK's atrocities and the UN will applaud them as LEL LIBERATORS.

>>1555865
It sounds like China has the same problems with NK that we have with Israel. Unruly client states are a bitch.