I was saying that if China wanted to knock down one of its competitors and remove some US troops from the region it would just topple the commies in North Korea.
A hastily united Korea would probably impoverish Korea and remove the pretense for US troops on the peninsula. Not only that they could probably get a promise from Korea not to put any Korean forces north of the ‘38 to boot.
I like that idea.
The problem is that the Chinese are looking to slowly annex north korea over time. the north koreans are supine and the chinese like it that way.
Any unification of Korea would come at the loss of Chinese direct power on the penninsula because north korea would be energized by their countrymen and family from the south and push a potential competitor to China right up to their border.