cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59118855
- “Given the increasingly severe international situation, I believe we may truly be at a turning point in history,” Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya said at the start of the meeting with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and South Korean Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul. “That makes it even more important to overcome division and confrontation through dialogue and cooperation,” he added.
The way things are going in SK, it might just implode politically at some point.
That just means more US management though
If the regime collapses, the north might move in.
I feel like that would put the north in a hot conflict with the US pretty fast and China would not signal to the north that they would support.
I think that will all depend on the state of the US in the next few years. If US crashes economically, they might not be in a position to do anything about it.
Well yeah, in that case I would imagine Japan realigning with China, which then encircles Korea. I doubt the DPRK wants to fight a civil war given how much suffering has already befallen the Korean people, it would be very difficult to justify even more suffering. More than likely SK will get pressured to push the last vestiges of the US military out in order to participate fully in regional cooperation, and that’s the condition DPRK is looking for to begin pursuing peaceful reunification.
that would be the ideal scenario