re: #102 BryanS

I don’t see how Japan could hold themselves back much longer. Many Southeast Asian countries still harbor fears and animosities towards Japan’s historical aggressions. One would think China would once and for all put the kibosh on N Korea’s nonsense.

Too great a risk for China; hundreds of thousands of starved, heavily-armed NorKs fed a steady diet of Juche propaganda since about 1945, this is not a pleasant prospect for China at the moment. They just gotta keep them on a leash till they can figure out what to do about them, is all. Sad thing is, there’s nothing to do but keep dumping rice and fuel in to keep the population (barely) alive; all they can do is prolong the agony.

If things got any worse in NK, the flood of refugees into China would be unstoppable, and would certainly de-stabilize China. At all costs, this has to be prevented.