Tsuru wrote:Russian and Chinese support is dwindling as It's no longer in their best interest to keep propping up the regime, but the only reason they do it is that when the regime collapses they have a massive humanitarian crisis overflowing into their countries. Nobody wants to deal with the millions of refugees such a situation creates. Added to this is the fact that NK has a much, much smaller per capita GDP than SK, it's nothing like the situation that existed between the GDR and West Germany at the time when Germany was unified. A Korean Wende without South Korea dropping like a stone on all known economic and development rankings is simply not possible. And I also remember reading something about the average South Korean no longer being interested in a unification for the sake of seeing long-lost familiy and friends again, as it's been over half a century since the two countries where divided. By comparison, the Berlin wall only existed for 26 years (1963-1989) with travel of Wessies into the east still possible.
Exactly... that's why we need a massive bloody land war with as much NK casualties as possible...
Kill the people, take the land... problem solved...
For more subtle analysis this thread on an armchair general forum is not that bad:
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