We agree to feed them yet again and they agree to take their toys and go home. Stupid haircut wins again.
Why do we know about this?
You see?
No greater war.
And the promptness of their reaction points to something unseen:
THEY WERE PAID.
That’s fine, but just make no mistake, this mysterious resolution was a matter of SUBSTANCE, noooot principle.
SK looked at the costs of German re-unification and blanched —the costs were SKY-HIGH, and estimates were that Korean unification would be 300% more expensive.
China and SK are perfectly willing to keep NK limping along hobbled and drinking Tree Bark Soup.
CUZ THAT PATH IS **CHEAPER**.
We also probably kicked into the kitty pretty richly, too, I’d wager.
BEEN GOING ON FOR *DECADES*.
Say anything you want, but fielding 50 submarines in under a week is pretty impressive.
Interestingly there have been no indications that the U.S participated in any talks, other than activating troops. No self congratulations from the State Department.
Or Hillary & Trump are sucking all the oxygen out of the air?
Especially being off-watch and trying to get some much needed sleep, in a very small diesel boat full of puking Norks. Ughhh.
It would have been a good time to sink as many as we could. Plausible deniability, and the Norks left wondering about the safety of their boats.
Diesel subs need... diesel fuel. My guess is that this surge required so much fuel that each sub left with less than “half-a-tank”. Now if the seas get rough, and you can’t ride-out the storm by diving deep and staying there... let’s just say that Bull Halsey proved that ships with empty fuel bunkers don’t ride well in typhoons.