>If the NK regime was to fail, it won't be surprising if China pull a putin and annex NK.
If China were to annex NK Wouldn't that remove the buffer? Wouldn't China prefer the west/south to take over north korea and all the costs that comes with it? that way west/south would be too busy with rebuilding north and so deep in costs they would have less time threatening China.
If China doesn't annex North korea, then 28,000 American troops sitting on the DMZ have no reason to be there and the justification for high troop deployments to Japan is lessened
I for one totally trust the US military leadership to see things from this point of view and move all those troops out, rather than figuring out excuses and pretexts for keeping the bases there.
If China were to annex NK Wouldn't that remove the buffer? Wouldn't China prefer the west/south to take over north korea and all the costs that comes with it? that way west/south would be too busy with rebuilding north and so deep in costs they would have less time threatening China.