If North Korea can get a nuclear warhead to Japan, I will eat my shoes.
(I don't own a hat.)
I suspect that China's reasons for leaving be are partly cost-related. Their leadership wouldn't flinch from the human loss involved, but more or less building a working country from scratch will be expensive as heck. If they were willing to hold out a plausible chance at peaceful reunification, they might even be able to talk South Korea into not getting involved, that being the other half of their equation.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
(I don't own a hat.)
I suspect that China's reasons for leaving be are partly cost-related. Their leadership wouldn't flinch from the human loss involved, but more or less building a working country from scratch will be expensive as heck. If they were willing to hold out a plausible chance at peaceful reunification, they might even be able to talk South Korea into not getting involved, that being the other half of their equation.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."