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North and South Korea Exchange Fire as Tensions Heighten

Maaan, South Korea has a few other countries on their side. If North Korea ever really did seriously go after them, or if they came to blows, North wouldn't last too long if an actual war kicked off. This is part of why I've never been super worried.
 
Kano said:
Maaan, South Korea has a few other countries on their side. If North Korea ever really did seriously go after them, or if they came to blows, North wouldn't last too long if an actual war kicked off. This is part of why I've never been super worried.
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North Korea has, potentially, Russia and China as allies. While the DPRK has a laughably weak military and would absolutely lose a war with the south without these allies, the fact that it could call upon those great powers for aid cannot be ignored.
 
Jabberwocky said:
North Korea has, potentially, Russia and China as allies. While the DPRK has a laughably weak military and would absolutely lose a war with the south without these allies, the fact that it could call upon those great powers for aid cannot be ignored.
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If the north fires the first shot then i dont think China would want to overly help due to the US being on the other side. they have a lot of exports that they give to the USA and it would be very crippling to thier economy if we refuse to allow their products into our shores. Also if CHina were to support the North (which even they are starting to get annoyed with) the other countrise could impose other economic santions such as asking the big manufactures such as GM, VW, Toyota, ect to move out production just like in South Africa in the 1980s. Unless the SOuth attacks first (unlikely) i doubt that CHina would rush to their aid very quickly if at all. I dont think they want to jump into the bullpen to save their freind who was needlessly provoking the bull.
 
There's treaties on both sides. But China has made sure for it to be known that if the north were to open fire first, they would not be providing assistance to them in the subsequent retaliations.

All in all, Democratic People's Republic of Korea would lose any attempts at conflict they try. The biggest question to any sort of attack they attempt would be "how much damage will they manage before they can be repelled", hence the concern: they do have artillery aimed at the Republic of Korea's capital, Seoul, hence the concern of attack at all. Otherwise, the real concerns of such conflict, the People's Republic of China and the United States of America's reactions, would all come down to "who started it". If north, then China would be in no hurry to stop the results as they're not as concerned with the USA as they were during the Cold War, where the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics set it up as a buffer state from American forces. But if the south and US provoked a war, then they'd get involved (though they'd probably use it as an opportunity to deal with Kim Jong-un and establish Seoul as the capital of a reunited Korea, as they've long established they'd prefer Seoul be the capital, if it came down to invading the other half).
 
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