Ok totally amateur musings about North Korea I think a pivot to the international system makes a lot of sense for Kim, and to the extent this happens it's probably a loss for Chinese regional hegemony And so maybe this is good for American global power, if you're into that
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6. I think China is at risk of overplaying their hand, regionally. If they get aggressive, equilibrium is being completely encircled by powerful nuclear states: already India and Pakistan and Russia, and perhaps a newly-independent DPRK; then Japan and ROK in a heartbeat
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7. Anyway, I don't *love* American power but China spooks me. If we end up with a less-awful (if only because not-starving, but I think we can do better) DPRK invested in international system . . . that seems like at least a marginal improvement on status quo ante,
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8. and much much better than ongoing brinksmanship around the Korean peninsula that maybe ends up killing half the population of Seoul in an artillery barrage when principals slip up. So I'm feeling pretty optimistic regardless of terms of agreement. /fin
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Addendum I have no special knowledge of China, North Korea, South Korea, America, Japan, geopolitics, or anything else relevant to this space. Place low weight on this thread when updating your own beliefs please!
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