Current Events > Looks like China might be throwing North Korea to the dogs.

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http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Thinking_the_unthinkable_in_China_Abandoning_North_Korea_999.html

North Korea will have literally no allies left if China breaks ties with them.
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China was never going to support North Korea when push came to shove. China wanted any sort of ally as a counterpoint to pro-US Japan and South Korea, but they're the equivalent of a crazy woman living in the attic of a manor in a Victorian novel.

Damaging ties to the US was, and never will be, worth an alliance with a small, despotic, tyrannical and rogue nation like North Korea.
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Gotta fatten those dogs up before you eat them
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SolKarellen posted...

China was never going to support North Korea when push came to shove. China wanted any sort of ally as a counterpoint to pro-US Japan and South Korea, but they're the equivalent of a crazy woman living in the attic of a manor in a Victorian novel.

The only reason China gives a damn is because of the massive influx of refugees in the border when/if USA steamrolls through Best Korea, if anything last time they put their military right in the border. Not to retaliate but just to keep the refugees out
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CEs_EFG posted...

SolKarellen posted...

China was never going to support North Korea when push came to shove. China wanted any sort of ally as a counterpoint to pro-US Japan and South Korea, but they're the equivalent of a crazy woman living in the attic of a manor in a Victorian novel.

The only reason China gives a damn is because of the massive influx of refugees in the border when/if USA steamrolls through Best Korea, if anything last time they put their military right in the border. Not to retaliate but just to keep the refugees out

This, plus NK was a convenient buffer state to have in between them and South Korea.
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