02-12-2018, 03:34 PM
(02-12-2018, 02:53 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Regarding Korea, a lot depends on whether Moon believes that reunification can occur without submitting to Kim as the dictator of a unified Korea. If he is fooled into believing that, he will believe that the unified Korea won't need the US any more, because it will have nuclear weapons, perhaps under his own control.
A nuclear-free Korean peninsula is the shared position of both the People's Republic of China and the Republic of Korea. South Korea does not now allow the USA to have nuclear weapons in South Korea.
One way or the other, the horribly-named, and even worse, horrific Democratic People's Republic of Korea (which is grossly undemocratic, does not serve the interests of the people of any part of Korea, and is in fact an absolute monarchy) is doomed. Either it will be incorporated into a unified republic of Korea as its political institutions democratize to fit those of the Republic of Korea (think of the German Democratic Republic, which actually became a democracy before it was incorporated into the Federal Republic) or to become a puppet state of the People's Republic of China.
It would take only one big slip-up by Emperor Kim Jong-Un, like firing a missile over Chinese territory even if its ultimate destination is the USA (and the Great Circle route for almost all American destinations from North Korea is over Chinese territory).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
