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Originally Posted by k9870
Not due to two deaths, due to the millions over time of their own people the regime has murdered. Due to the millions who will continue to die. And Russia and China aren't going to come militarily to the aid of North Korea, sure they'll raise a fuss but:
A. Russia and China hate each other, they'd never work together.
B. Being an ally of North Korea doesn't have enough benefit to risk war.
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Russia and China do not "hate" each other, they
distrust each other and remain rivals (not enemies). But that doesn't change the fact that they do have some mutual strategic interests, and North Korea happens to be one of those. China and Russia have kept the Kims in power on the Korean peninsula because they regard the DPRK as a buffer against U.S. and Japanese military power in the region. As long as the Kims are militarily weak but unpredictable and bellicose, it keeps the U.S. from establishing complete dominance in the region.
Another problem (for China) is that if the regime collapsed, millions of North Koreans would flood China, which would have a serious economic impact and also possibly lead to civil war in the provinces which the refugees entered (Chinese in the border provinces hate Koreans already). The Chinese have enough issues with internal stability as-is.
So no, North Korea is extremely important to China and Russia, and they will go to war to keep the U.S. and South Korea out of it.
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Originally Posted by S&Wshooter
We need to just make it clear to North Korea that if they keep trying to start a war, there will no longer be a North Korea, only an unihabitable nuclear wasteland
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They're not trying to start a war. As I've said, when this stuff happens, it's a result of internal tensions with the regime.