Posted on 10/18/2018 9:24:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
"North Korea is a historical relic, destabilizing force, and human rights abomination. The Korean people and the world will be far better off without it."
The good news is that this collapse has the potential to be a win-win for nearly everyone. The North Korean people will end their terrible suffering, North and South Korea will be reunified under South Korean law, potentially following a UN-administered transitional period and referendum, the specter of a rogue nuclear nation at the heart of Asia will be removed, and China will gain a valuable trading partner in a unified Korea and access to Seoul’s high tech economy and northern Korea’s natural resources through high quality rail, road, and communications links.
As a member of the U.S. National Security Council staff in the later 1990s, I worked with colleagues on plans for responding to the potential collapse of the North Korean government. As a self-induced famine ravaged the country, we considered what we might do when the regime finally succumbed to the inevitable consequence of its own insanity. Almost twenty years later, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is still there and those predicting its imminent collapse have continually been proven wrong. But today, the North Korean madness may well be nearing its endgame. I predict it will be gone within a decade....
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Castro outlasted 10 US Presidents.
They’ve been predicting the demise of Asian communist states since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
I gave up trying to gauge how societies there work. I thought the Chicoms were going to fall with Tianamin Square.
If NK collapse, the Chinese would immediately invade to stop the NKians from flooding China. They’d also turn NK into a sweatshop state much like their western provinces.
Yeah what could possibly go wrong under that scenario? </sarcasm>
We should make a deal with the Koreans for those minerals. We’ll ship quality pork, chicken, rice, cabbage, soybeans and spices in exchange for majority ownership.
“They’ve been predicting the demise of Asian communist states since the fall of the Berlin Wall.”
Who has?
I haven’t seen much of that.
And, the experts didn’t predict the collapse of the European communist states either.
“If NK collapse, the Chinese would immediately invade to stop the NKians from flooding China.”
No way.
“They’d also turn NK into a sweatshop state much like their western provinces.”
Definitely N Korea would become a manufacturing place. But I don’t think it would be China running it.
a chinese problem,, not ours..
watch SK build a wall .. lol
“There is a LOT of valuable minerals in what is now North Korea. The Chinese would love to have unfettered access to that mineral wealth”
For unfettered access, what’s stopping them now?
ChiComs would be better off regarding this with Communist N Korea intact.
What if North Korea Collapsed?
then Kims fat ass could fill the hole
Ture, but the Chinese like things the way they are so North Korean and its people will continue to suffer.
Young South Koreans do not want unification and do not want anything to do with North Korea fiscally.
May it be so.
The problem is that the North Koreans can’t take care of themselves. They’ve become so used the government running everything in their lives that it may well take several generations until they can take responsibility for all the little choices we make every day. Much of South Korea knows that and doesn’t want to deal with it.
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