Comments on: [MUST READ] China will Send Troops to North Korea in Emergency: Study

By: deleteme

deleteme — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:28:04 +0000

You Koreans are averagely welcomed. We don’t want that freezing useless area. Fi you appear nice to us and politely ask for help, we might take NK and give it back to you. But if you guys continuously claiming Manchuria as your “DIVINE LAND” of your nameless taled ancestry, we won’t be glad to see you guys coming unified. Although we dislike Japanese, at least they are not revisionists. But you Koreans are cute and dangerous. Who knows what you want to do after being stimulated by this “National glorious revival event of reunification”? We just don’t want that poor land being filled with nukes and pshchos. But you are no more rational than your northern cousins. I just don’t know why you guys always keep making issues with your neighbours? Yes, you have not done your job in the reunifcation. But you are too easily and early to say that Northeast China is yours. At the same time, you claim some island from Japanese. You clearly don’t understand what grand strategy is. Even the majority of Chinese dislike Japanese, you hold no better impressions than them. I would even say it is silly for you to be overconfidence and crazily ambitious, since you are located between the second and third biggest economies of the world. And sometimes you are unhappy with Americans… Well, you guys are too shortsighted and not valuable arguing with.

By: sumo294

sumo294 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:04:12 +0000

You are talking about ratios. And for that matter South Korea to the Norks also looks good on paper. But how can China move in on the Norks without looking like a bunch of hacks? You are thinking that it will be a matter of policing–you are wrong. The world is watching–China would have to demonstrate that the country benefits from Chinese rule and that takes resources that they don’t have.
Let me ask again–and forget money–which Chinese general has the mojo to pull such an endeavor off–huh?

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By: Zonath

Zonath — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:05:57 +0000

How in the world can the Chinese sustain the Nork economy by themselves. I mean really?

Lessee… An estimated GDP of about $24 billion vs. an estimated GDP of about $10 trillion. My guess is pretty comfortably. After all, they’re basically sustaining the Nork economy already. Of course, that does leave the question of why they’d want North Korea. We’re talking about one of the Shittiest Countries on Earth(tm), after all. It’s not as if they have some sort of irrational emotional attachment to the territory (even without giving two shits about the people), like some countries do.

By: slim

slim — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:12:51 +0000

I’d like to see Korea’s youth step up to the plate for North Korean people NOW. China, even one which killed off about 15% of Tibetans in modern times, couldn’t treat average DPRK citizens worse than the Kim Family Regime has been treating them all these years.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:46:24 +0000

‘Koreans older than 45′ sanshinseon

the ones who run the country. if china invades the north, there will be war.

‘if the chinese are subtle…’

don’t matter if they are subtle since we’re already suspicious of their intentions. the north will be absorbed by the south and then, the korean people can be one again.

that’s the way it will be.

By: pawikirogi

pawikirogi — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 19:38:09 +0000

i’ve seen respectable people like sanshinseon say the same thing about korea’s youth. then, i’ve seen other people correct this type of thinking by suggesting that people not read too much into that. korean youth will do what’s expected of them 때가 되면.

By: sumo294

sumo294 — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:32:47 +0000

How in the world can the Chinese sustain the Nork economy by themselves. I mean really? For some reason, everyone thinks China has the resources to pull this off. Are you guys serious? You think that they can sustain, rule and manage 25 million Norks without sinking themselves?

Hmmmnnn — yeah right.

By: sanshinseon

sanshinseon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:04:49 +0000

china try to take korea, there will be war. you got that? THERE WILL BE WAR.

There appears to be an interesting generational divide amongst South Koreans on this question, and perhaps a social-class divide too; but i have only anecdotes. A few elite-class Koreans older than 45 or so that i know speak very much like pawi there, tho in more sophisticated terms of course.

But just about every younger Koreana i’ve discussed this with (quite a few college students) don’t really care much about the future of NK except in the most symbolic terms; they’re quite open to say that they have no real problem with China taking over NK if that will preserve peace and stability, not worsening their already-troubled job-prospects or disturbing their consumerist lifestyle. If it were at all blatant it would cause them discomfort, tho still not spur them to action. If China were as subtle and smooth about it as it has been in Mongolia, and as Lankov predicts they will be, these younger South Koreans will have no problem with it at all.

Don’t know quite how that makes me feel, myself as an involved outsider — i can see the points and understand the feelings of both sides. I certainly don’t want a destructive war…

By: dda

dda — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:42:43 +0000

Imagine Mexico were on the verge of collapse

Actually, sounds like Mekiko since the dawn of times…