Ignoring someone else pointing out the vacuousness of this tripe was hardly polite.
There is not a conflict between North Korea and South Korea.
There is a conflict between North Korea as China’s puppet and South Korea. You can not balance the two if you refuse to acknowledge that the Dragon has its thumb on the scales.
Whether South Korea could take out North Korea has always been entirely irrelevant. South Korea cannot stand against North Korea and China.
RE: South Korea cannot stand against North Korea and China.
OK, what about South Korea AND Japan combined?
China and South Korea have a lot of ties.
China knows that ultimately the South will prevail, but they use the North for leverage as a bargaining chip to get the US to leave the Peninsula once the Koreas reunite.