I sometimes wonder if China and and the US are secretly coming to some sort of understanding about North Korea and Taiwan: North Korea reunites with the South in exchange for Taiwan rejoining the mainland.
And Ukraine and Poland re-unite with Russia... Under Soviet terms.
North Korea re-unites with the South... On the North’s terms.
I don’t think so—any action could spin out of control and end up with WW III. No one wants that. If Russia or China had a deal with obama—maybe. North invades south Korea—uses rockets to smash ports and puts up a blocade. They might push into seoul but I don’t think they could do much unless China steped in. The war could pull in Japan. US troops may well be ordered to stand down or give up by the CinC. It could blow into a China/Japan war with us sitting on our hands and going to the UN—more Susan Rice speaches.
China may seize Taiwan —to protect it from Japan. But Vietnam may get into the war siding with Japan.
While we are being distracted Putin may seize his land bridge to Criema taking eastern Ukraine. If Ukraine fights—they will roll into Keiv. If Poland gets involved the russians might bomb Warsaw. Iran may seize Kuait and move on gulf states. Hamas will start to bombard Israel with rockets-—Venesula might march on Guyana, with Cuban help. Things would go south quick.