What terrifies the Chinese most of all is millions of Nork refugees pouring over their border.
I think if China sensed that the Norks were about to truly go off the deep end, they would intervene and move in.
me too
I think if China sensed that the Norks were about to truly go off the deep end, they would intervene and move in.
Letting the NORKs hit us with and EMP, knocking us out as a superpower presence in Southeast Asia (our military would have to come home to deal with the consequences) while we nuke the NORKs (we would maintain that ability even after a successful EMP attack) would kill two birds with one stone for China. They achieve one of their strategic goals with plausible deniability of any involvement, the best possible outcome in asymmetric warfare, while the NORK refugee problem would mostly cease to exist.