Doesn’t the Admiral get sitrep and intel reports. Chicoms already moved up 4 mech inf divisions onto their Korean border just in case NK collapses. The divs are there because at their normal locations it would take up to two weeks to rail them to the border, thus the PLA already have 4 heavy divs ready. The PLA also has several bdes of airportable inf and airborne troops, plus local militia/armed police units to backup the 4 heavy divisions. Deployed behind these 4 mech divisions is a cadre plus command/control and logistics of a GA (Group Army) to coordinate the heavy divisions plus any additional reinforcments from airportable bdes. In other words China within 72 hours can have up to 100,000 troops as the vanguard to move into NK. China also has a history of buying NK generals and admirals. The two Kim leaders have a habit of purging any general or admiral that show any signs of pro Bejing tendencies to keep China from making NK into a total puppet. Right now there is a power struggle amongst the Kim sons (each backed by different generals). The youngest son is favored by Kim but his oldest son is living in a luxury hotel in Macau on a Chinese stipend. Here is a possible scenario, Kim dies, the sons fight and society falls apart. China secures the support of NK generals in charge of troops near the Chinese border allows the Chinese to occupy a strip of NK to keep Korean refugees from flooding into China by creating a zone of stability while everything south of the zone to the 38th Parallel goes to hell. SK and US will delay any move northward because the NK troops on the DMZ may still remain in their bunkers to very end of the collapse. If the US and SK delay their moves further, the PLA will expand their zone southward as more NK generals decide to join the zone. Eventually the SK and US will advance northward and a new DMZ will be drawn. The oldest Kim son will be made leader of the newly drawn NK with borders north of the current DMZ. This way China prevents Korean refugees, retains control of NK and get their buffer zone against the US. Here is a tibit of info that the MSM did not report. Several weeks ago, NK border guards shot and killed three Chinese citizens and claimed they were smugglers. One week later a Chinese border guard shot and killed a NK border guard. Normall these incidents are hushed up and each side would pay the other for damages/deaths. China actually filed a diplomatic protest to the NK in public. Things are getting interesting between NK and China. Time wil tell.
It is to our advantage to let the Chicoms try to handle the NK basket case.
Interesting info
Thanks
You have it exactly right.
Also count on the NK sending the starving dregs of their society to the south so that the worst of the refugees are SK’s and the US’s problem.
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Irrelevant, unfortunately. He is nothing but a prop and shill for Obama, an actor dressed up in an Admiral's uniform who mouths the lines he is given.