The Chinese dilemma on an eccentric North Korea

[dud]

I read this article and it made me think:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10195282.stm


The logic used by the writer seems a bit far-fetched and yet not so:

"Even so, outright fighting, though it might cost a great many casualties, would almost certainly be won by the South, with American help.

Large numbers of refugees would flood across North Korea's border with China. Kim Jong-il's ramshackle regime would probably fall quickly. Korea would be reunited, as a capitalist, strongly pro-American ally abutting on to China.

Who knows what might happen then to China's own, often insecure political leadership?

Mr Wen and his colleagues could lose everything."



Please share your thoughts ...

 

[Fox5]

Well, if that's really a concern of China, they could fix it easily. Invade North Korea, using the same justification the US used in its wars on terror, trumpet it as being an ally in spirit to the US's wars on rogue nations but indicate that China can handle its own sphere of influence, and replace Kim with a puppet government.

 

[Infohawk]

China puppeting NK makes the most sense.

 

[JS80]

China sees nk as their own territory. Win win for them. Status quo they are a proxy to cause disruption to the us in case there is trouble with Taiwan. If there is war with sk nk independently, the refugees will attempt to get to china and the Chinese will absorb and steal Korean land just as they stole Manchuria from the Koreans.