I feel the winds of war.
Here’s my take. China will move in and depose the lunatics in NK and will be hailed as peacemakers by the Eurotrash and America leftists. Within 6 months, agitators in SK will be calling for US troops to leave SK as a premise for reunification with NK. Obama will oblige as part of his plan to neuter America’s influence abroad, but will cite economic necessity as the premise for the withdrawal of troops. The reunited Korea will become a docile “neutral” state, much as Austria was in the shadow of the Soviet Eastern Bloc. The loss of Korea as a strategic forward base will make Taiwan more difficult to defend and will lead to additional base closures in Japan. By the end of Obama’s term the US will cease to have a significant military presence in east Asia.