NK Sinks SK Ship; Says Retaliation = War

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Samus Aran said:

mrstickball said:

In even more abusrd news:

North Korea has deployed BD-21 rocket artillery to defend its territory...against China!

It seems that NK is now worried that their allies in Beijing are fed up with their BS, and may attack them. That, or they are ready to attack their own civilians with rockets.

I don't think it would be hard to pursuade China to become an ally of the US/EU/South Korea and an enemy of North Korea when a war would break out. What advantage has China from North Korea as an ally? None. What advantage has China from the US/EU/UN/South Korea as an ally? A lot.

I think it would actually be quite difficult to get China as an ally, maybe impossible. Communist nations just don't <i>go</i> against one another like that: whatever else can be said about them (most of it bad), they're nothing if not loyal to like-minded nations.

The best odds of avoiding war with China, honestly, is convincing it to remain neutral in the Korean conflict. If that happens, North Korea is toast, because no one else is going to help it. The problem with this is that I don't see China going neutral unless the West agrees to throw Taiwan and Tibet under the bus: essentially a trade. That's not something I find acceptable.