Does the PRC really care any more about North Korea?

[Politruk]

In 1950, China was willing to go to war to save their fellow Communists. But the PRC does not really seem to care, any more, about Communism as an international movement. I suspect they now regard Kim Kong-il's regime as an embarrassing crazy relative, nothing more.

On the other hand, they would not like to see the peninsula reunited under the South Korean government -- that would place an American ally on their border.

 

[Politruk]

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[Politruk]

It's like this: When the PRC makes its demands on Taiwan, they always say, "Taiwan is historically a province of China." They never say, "we must liberate the workers of Taiwan from their capitalist exploiters." They don't even seem to think in those terms any more.

 

[Hel_Books]

In 1950, China was willing to go to war to save their fellow Communists. But the PRC does not really seem to care, any more, about Communism as an international movement. I suspect they now regard Kim Kong-il's regime as an embarrassing crazy relative, nothing more.

On the other hand, they would not like to see the peninsula reunited under the South Korean government -- that would place an American ally on their border.

Plus that united Korea would have all those nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that the communist regime has stockpiled.

 

[Politruk]

Plus that united Korea would have all those nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that the communist regime has stockpiled.

NK's real military threat is the long-range conventional artillery guns that they have dug into tunnels in the mountains. With those, they could reduce Seoul to rubble in a day.

 

[Hel_Books]

NK's real military threat is the long-range conventional artillery guns that they have dug into tunnels in the mountains. With those, they could reduce Seoul to rubble in a day.

I was thinking about the problems China would have with a united Korea. Suddenly all those nuclear weapons would be the property of a wealthy, democratic, capitalist country.