Comments on: Open Radio: China Prepares N. Korea Occupation Force

By: Irene

Irene — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:25:20 +0000

I agree. We should not be afraid to go to war with China over North Korea – in fact, this may be our most viable alternative, given the way things are now.

By: Dana

Dana — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:18:41 +0000

Why would China want to take over North Korea? To keep North Korea under communist control. Plus, they don’t want our troops closer to them, though the way things are now I don’t know why they are afraid of us. South Korea and us do need to step up our counter proganda in North Korea. I don’t think we should be afraid to go to war with China over North Korea if necessnary.

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:51:59 +0000

What OFK said and I’d add – a nation that wants to function as a superpower which calls for power-projection, not contraction……Such a nation would feel like sitting on the sidelines is the very last thing that should happen….

By: Joshua Stanton

Joshua Stanton — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:55:57 +0000

Someone who wants a dirt-poor, resource-rich buffer state, a few strategic ports, and the potential for some territorial expansion, that's who.

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:14:48 +0000

Who would want to take over the dirt poor, resource-free nation?

By: usinkorea

usinkorea — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:20:34 +0000

This probably isn’t thinking I’ll be proud of weeks from now. I should probably feel worse about the chance of it happening, but for certain reasons, I can’t work up much attention to the chance China will make a move to pretty much take over NK. Why?

For the most part, 2 reasons: 1. It could prevent the worser case scenarios that could happen with the collapse and 2. China will fail. What can happen as it fails – and how long this can prolong the North Korean people’s suffering is what makes me feel somewhat shameful for counting on China’s failure, but I can’t prevent Beijing from making the effort, and I can’t picture the US caring enough to stand a good chance of preventing Beijing from doing it, so if it happens, at least it will re-teach China that pumping it’s national wealth into NK to build it up is a waste of many resources for a communist or semi-communist state….

And once China fails and decides to stop wasting its wealth, it will turn to the US and the world, and then we will have a better chance of setting NK on a better path toward getting itself going and joining the world community…

Hopefully, when collapse comes, it will work out that China doesn’t try its hand in keeping NK afloat under its control by itself or that its effort is limited by what the US, SK, and/or Japan does, and NK will begin true reconstruction soon after collapse….

It can go any number of ways……

By: kushibo

kushibo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:54:09 +0000

Well said, Joshua. I've thought many of the same things here. I shall link to this later in a future post I'm writing. In the meantime, I think the correct term would be Inner Chaoxian Autonomous Region, Ã la Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

By: Glans

Glans — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:57:53 +0000

If the North Korean people oppose a Chinese invasion, we and the south should aid them, but we should not do any of the fighting. The north must have plenty of weapons in their arsenals, so maybe we wouldn’t have to send much more than satellite phones.

But it would be better if the Chinese could understand that a unified, democratic Korea would be a better neighbor than a sullen, occupied North Korea. So maybe they’d be wise enough to stay out. They don’t really need more of the kind of trouble they already have with the Uighurs and Tibetans.