Unification of Korea. Should the U.S. stay out of it?

[Killiana1a]

starcraft said:

Killiana1a said:

No, the US should keep a military presence in South Korea until both are reunified and every single would-be dictator or co-conspirator in North Korea has been arrested and standing trial. The last thing South Korea wants is for North Korea to agree to reunification, the US pulls all troops, and North Korea invades.

As for Russia, they started this mess by propping up their own little puppet government in North Korea at the end of World War 2. Russia should nut up or shut up because they have no leg to stand on regarding the Koreas other than creating the situation we have now.

I believe China cares so long as there is not war and the threat of nuke usage. China has a good thing going with their economy, their gargantuan trade imbalance with the rest of the world, and the last thing they want is to take sides in a war in which all goods from their country could be embargoed because they do not side properly with South Korea.

I would not be surprised if China along with the US would provide joint security for the reunification.

I don't think it's that goods would be embargoed.  I think that it is the fact a lot of China's wealth is in the form of Western debt they hold.

If there was a war large enough and substantive enough, it is possible the West would deliberately default on all this debt, resulting in the greatest instantaneous transfer of wealth in history (a couple of currently non-existent trillion dollars Europe and America would declare will never be repaid).

The "transfer of wealth" would never occur because China would end up holding T bonds that would amount to nothing. The US Congress, specifically the US House of Representatives could simply pass a bill stating something along the lines, "Countries or organizations whom the US is at war with who hold US debt, treasury or otherwise, have revoked all value on their debt by threatening national security interests."

Same would be done in every single  European country. A war involving China as an adversary of the West would be a godsend for deficit hawks, yet the lowest layer of hell for big business who manufactures in China.