N obody knows what is going to happen in Korea because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is a reckless leader who continues to prepare for a war. If he attacks South Korea he will inflict much …
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Nobody knows what is going to happen in Korea because North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un is a reckless leader who continues to prepare for a war. If he attacks South Korea he will inflict much damage, kill thousands of people in the South, in a war that would lead to his destruction because the North would be destroyed. There is the big question as to what China would do if its ally attacked South Korea. China does not want a war. China, along with Russia, aided the North during the Korean War in the early 1950s. The war would not have dragged on for more than three years if China and Russia had not helped the North. Russia probably would not aid the North this time. Russia has its eyes on Europe and a couple of countries in the Middle East.North Korea’s testing of long-range missiles has resulted in the U.S. setting up an antimissile system in the South. This has China worried, according to The New York Times, that the U.S. antimissile system (called THAAD) could erode its nuclear deterrent — its ability to scare off potential foes from ever considering a nuclear attack.With the North and the South living so close to each other — Seoul, the capital of the South, is just a little over an hour’s drive from North Korea — one would think people living in the South would constantly be nervous about an attack. That’s not really the case; if you visit Korea and ask people in the South whether they fear a North Korean attack, they will tell you, “As long as the U.S. backs us, we will be OK.”The U.S. is the South’s security blanket.One thing that is known: Kim Jong Un knows if his country attacks the South, the retaliation by the South and the U.S. would end his regime because the North would be destroyed.If that happened, and the South took over the North, China would not like a united Korea, with the U.S. backing it, to be its neighbor. China also fears a strengthened Japan, but we don’t think China would come to the aid of the North in a showdown. Conditions are different today than in 1950, when the North invaded the South and a war erupted. The fear then was the spread of communism.
