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Originally Posted by Abbott Shaull
As for the port, I don't see Russia or China wanting to see the South Korea government in control of a new unified Korea. At this time they realize regardless who control the port, it will keep them honest with each other.
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Agreed. South Korea is already an economic powerhouse. I think China would view a unified Korea as an even more dangerous economic competitor. Yeah, it would take a decade or two for the South to pull the North up to something approaching solvency, but once it does, look out! I mean, West Germany/Germany did something very similar in just over a decade or so.
And don't make the mistake of underestimating the NK military. Yeah, it's probably more bark than it is bite but we made the mistake of underestimating it once and we almost got our asses kicked as a result. Even if the NKs lost the conventional war fairly quickly, if/when it went asymetric, we could end up pacifying/stabilizing the North for a very long time. Throw in NBC weapons at some point and it could get very, very ugly before it was all over.