My sense is China has a go team ready to depose Kim if he doesn’t shut up and sit down. Then the new regime can say they’re besties with PRC now and the US and allies need to go home. Kindof a win/win/win.
......I don’t think Kim is even relevant any more. This has all gone way too far thanks to Clintons, Bush’s and Obama. The “issue” is not “Kim” but their nuclear capability. If Kim were to drop dead today the nuclear capability is still there in the hands of other “Kims”.
China wants them to have this capability or they would not have it.
I think the US ultimately is going to have to do what McInerney said and that is, briefly stated, send one massive attack of 2,000 missiles to wipe out Korea’s ability to use it’s artillery on Seoul and leadership. In such an attack, Korea militarily is finished in minutes.
Then, allied troops will have to take over North Korea to insure this nuclear capability is destroyed totally. Then you have to confront China. Simply put, unless your’re prepared to roll the dice on losing several American Cities, there are no good options.
My sense is China has a go team ready to depose Kim if he doesn’t shut up and sit down.
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I very much hope you’re right!
Regardless of everything else, China has its own best interests at heart. It’s not in their best interest to see us at war with Korea OR to make enemies of us. That would mean we’d buy less of their cheap crap and actually start building our own stuff again.