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Originally Posted by Schroeder
The Kims have been untouchable ever since China became their big buddy in the 1950ies....
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No, untouchable they were not - just that the costs for touching them were considered to be too high when seeing that the possible gains were what they were: not compensating enough. But today, the stakes are much higher, and I doubt that China would go to nuclear war with the US if the Us strikes Korea. They want Korea as a sting in the US' pacific flank. They do not want Chinese cities being wiped out over Korea. Bejing is a tough political opponent, but rational. Pyöngyang is inhumane, and not rational at all. A rabied dog. Kim is trying to hold a razorknife at America's throat, right over the carotid, and he says he wants to cut it. No major power of imperial status with a selfunderstanding like the US has can afford to ignore that and let it go by unanswered.
Furthermore I consider that North Korea must be destroyed.