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From BusinessInsider (NOT the original article I read yesterday.)
Amid a productive phone call between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, Chinese state-run media reported that 150,000 Chinese troops went to North Korea's border.
Both China and the US have pushed back on the claims of troops massing, however.
International observers fear that North Korea may conduct another nuclear test this weekend on the anniversary of the founding of Kim Jong Un's regime, but the US has broadcast loud and clear that nuclear posturing in the Korean peninsula will no longer be tolerated.
In March, Business Insider talked to Sim Tack, a North Korea expert at Stratfor, a geopolitical-analysis firm, who speculated how Chinese forces could stop North Korea's nuclear program without firing a shot.
Tack predicted China would "definitely react to and try to prevent" a US strike on North Korea. The US increasingly has touted military strikes as an option against the Kim regime, even going as far as positioning an aircraft carrier off Korea's coast.
"The overt presence of Chinese forces would dissuade the US from going into that territory because they would run the risk of inviting that larger conflict themselves," Tack said.
Chinese forces in North Korea would "be in a position to force a coup or force Kim's hand" to disarm, Tack said.
Ultimately, China, North Korea's biggest backer, would attempt "to make sure North Korea still exists and serves Chinese interests while it stops acting as a massive bullseye to the US," he added.
In this way, China could preserve its buffer state from falling to Western influence, prevent a US military strike on its borders, and even prevent a nuclear war.
Besides its possible troop buildup, China also seems willing to apply pressure to the Kim regime in other ways. Last week, Beijing ordered its customs authorities to reject coal imports from North Korea - a big hit to the regime's wallet, since coal makes up about 40% of its total exports.
Thanks for the good info.
That basically describes my understanding of China's relationship with N. Korea for many years. No 'love' for NK, but a necessary buffer nonetheless.
China's just recent military positioning re N. Korea is telegraphing to the US that if intervention be required, it's China and not the US who has proprietary rights in that venture, and that they would not be the least bit hesitant in doing so.
So after that, anything from the US is just the normal blowhard politician(s) trying to get his face on the front page.
The USA and the former USSR already had hundreds of nukes, so most of the latter '50s and all of the '60s and '70s was all about ICBMs to knock them down before reaching target. I'm sure at least 20 other countries keep track with their 'birds' (satellites), and I'll bet 5 or more countries have one or three permanently parked in geosynchronous orbit over N. Korea. If any N. Korean missile got more than 10 miles over the Pacific, it would be a miracle, and China would be more likely than anyone else to be first to hit the mark in that skeet shoot.
This is why no president since 1953 made much noise about N. Korea other than the occasional politically convenient swipe, because 'we' know that China already has it handled.
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