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Re:Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan by Symmetry on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:00PM (#14196895)
The transition itself would dramatically increase the dangerous instability which is reason enough to try to put it off. "The horse might learn to talk" and all that.

A lot also hinges on what sort of deal China could work out with SK and the US. Would US forces come all the way to China's borders? Would the US leave the peninsula entirely after the war? Maybe China could be bribed with a lease for a nice naval base on the Sea of Japan? I'd hope that there's been some discussion of all of this ahead of times given how the last Korean War went but who knows.

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Re:Thunder Run to Seoul: Assessing North Korea’s War Plan by treebeard901 on Tuesday April 25, 2017 @03:17PM (#14197065)
How about the U.S. agrees to help integrate Taiwan back into mainland China (similar to the British and Hong Kong) in exchange for China helping with the North Korea situation?

EDIT: changed 'we' to the U.S.

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