Um, no. China is not a superpower, we are only a developing country.
It's the superpower USA who is crying day and night that they are being bullied by undeveloped countries like North Korea.
They are so desperate that they are asking a developing country like China to do their job for them.
They might as well "let" North Korea have nukes just like they "let" Iran keep their nuclear program. It looks magnanimous, allowing them to do it when they couldn't stop it to begin with.
Well, the fact that you sit here an feel a need to post like this really says enough.
Still, I'm glad to see you acknowledge China isn't a superpower. It certainly isn't in terms of behaviour and carrying its weight in the international arena. And yet it is so busy attempting to show the size of its p...s in SCS vis-a-vis its tiny neighbours.
Have a nice day, sweetheart.
North Korea is still testing nukes and ICBMs, Russia still has Crimea, China still has Scarborough shoal. Oh and Iran still has their nuclear program.
Just waiting for the day when the world policeman finally starts doing his job.
Uhm, they said NO. See ya.
I highly doubt it, since WW2 US only intervened when adversary was too weak to do anything, so if Combodia attacks SK then US will intervene with full force.
Duh.... would you intervene in a situation where you didn't have the upper hand, or could quickly gain the upper hand? No, you wouldn't. And I also do think you underestimate the military situations the US military has entered into in the past.
Firstly, I don't want to see any country get nuked. Again. Even a limited nuclear war would cause catastrophic damage to the global economy.
Secondly, North Korea wants to wipe AMERICA off the map, not South Korea or Japan. They are not developing ICBM's to reach South Korea, obviously. Their primary target is America.
More than 21 ballistic missiles have been launched by North Korea this year alone, with several of them reaching waters within Japan's exclusive economic zone -- 200 nautical miles from its coast. It is purely a matter of good fortune that no commercial aircraft or ships suffered any damage.
On September 5th, in the middle of the 2016 G20 Hangzhou summit, North Korea carried out a simultaneous test of three never before seen Scud-ER missiles which landed about 200 km west of Japan. The new missile is similar in size to the Scuds usually employed by the regime but can travel almost twice as far. The test drew a sharp rebuke from members of the summit and from China who stated that the test damaged the peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula.
China is North Korea's only real ally. It has long publicly lobbied against Pyongyang's nuclear program. Even China, a traditional ally of the regime, endorsed a UN resolution to apply further sanctions against North Korea. Despite this, tests have proceeded. As late as last september. China, North Korea's only major ally, joined in condemning the test and urged the regime to refrain from provocative actions.
This means either China
approves secretly or is
actually impotent. Some analysts have warned Beijing is too concerned about the potential collapse of the North Korean regime, and the instability that would bring, to take concrete action. China needs to understand that in the long run it is going to be less secure if North Korea pursues its nuclear program.
