Warlord Lefein wrote:
Is it safe to say that North Korea is like China's lil Pit Bull they keep on a leash to scare the west away?[/u]t!
Not at all. China does
not want North Korea causing any problems. If anything, China would like N.K. to disappear into oblivion.
China is one of the fastest growing nations in the world, if not
the fastest. In the not too distant future it will be a superpower just like the U.S. in terms of economy, military and political influence.
The U.S. knows this and basically they are afraid. They want to maintain a strong military presence in Asia to deter China from getting any big ideas in the future. Now if N.K. were to become the good little doggy that everyone wants it to be, there would really be no excuse for the U.S. to be in Asia in the numbers that it has right now. Nor would there be any excuse to supply its Asian allies with state of the art weapons, or have an excuse to completed its TMD system. As long as N.K. makes threats on it's neighbours, the U.S. has an excuse to maintain their presence. Therefore China
does not want N.K. to misbehave because it wants the U.S. out.
Why do you think that out of the six nations that are involved in the peace talks that the U.S. is always the one that is not willing to give N.K. too many concessions? It is because the U.S.
doesn't want peace in Northern Asian. If they had to leave, they would lose their influence on Japan, Korea and Taiwan (the 3 economic power houses of Asia) and they ability to intimidate China would be weakened.
Stop pointing the finger and take a look in the mirror.