I don't think so. The final turnover from American command authority in-theatre to the South Koreans is, IIRC, scheduled for 2012, and the latter have been making dentente noises for, IIRC, the last decade or so. Unless the 'Dear Leader' has less than two years to live and figure's he's got nothing left to lose, this just isn't a good time to push things, from their perspective.
If things do go hot, a lot will depend on actual status of the North Korean nuclear weapons and rocketry programs. If we're lucky, one or the other of them will turn out to be as hollow and mismanaged as that empty shell of a 'hotel' in Pyongyang. Without a nuclear arsenal to even the odds, South Korea will turn the North Koreans into a splat mark in a 'hot' war even without American help, which would be offered.
If the North does have working nuclear weaponry, though, they'll use them, and that'll be even uglier than an occupation.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
If things do go hot, a lot will depend on actual status of the North Korean nuclear weapons and rocketry programs. If we're lucky, one or the other of them will turn out to be as hollow and mismanaged as that empty shell of a 'hotel' in Pyongyang. Without a nuclear arsenal to even the odds, South Korea will turn the North Koreans into a splat mark in a 'hot' war even without American help, which would be offered.
If the North does have working nuclear weaponry, though, they'll use them, and that'll be even uglier than an occupation.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."