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Originally Posted by Cimarron29414
Since no one knows how China will react if pushed, there can't be a retaliation. Let's face it, the North sunk a submarine this year and nothing happened. So, they aren't ~reallly~ going to do anything.
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China wants a destabilized North Korea even less than South Korea does, they're the ones who would have to deal with 20 million refugees coming across the border. There won't be any retaliation because North Korea has spent the entire time since the "end" of the Korean war digging in 8000+ artillery pieces and missile launchers along with tunnels into the DMZ and South Korea, there's simply no effective way to disable it all at once, and estimates of North Korean capabilities I've read are a sustained rate of fire of 500 to 1000 shells and missiles per second for the first hour of attacks with minimum casualty estimates around 100,000 South Korean soldiers and 1 to 2 million civilians in Seoul. It's mutually assured destruction without the nukes.