United Nations led by the US hegemon couldn’t do it when China was uber weak, and China was about to suicide her entire economy fighting the first Korean war.

If China becomes involved in the second Korean war, do not ask whether DPRK will be invaded by CHina, ask if ROK/US army can survive a Chinese invasion of the Korean peninsula.

Looks like US is going to have to retreat back to Japan.

Korea is China’s backyard.

USA tolerated and continues to tolerate and even support rogue regimes or monarchies from South Africa to Sudan to Saudi Arabia to Suharto Indonesia…

A clue, Sherlock, S Africa is no longer a “rogue country”, it is just becoming another black-run country transforming into an unsafe, corrupt shithole. The US does not support the Sudan regime. Muslims and Chinese do. We “tolerate” KSA, because the alternative the people want is extremist Islam. And where the fuck have you been, brainless one – on Indonesia. Suharto is long-gone and a US-supported fledgling democracy is in place.

As for your tears about the Iran coup over half a century ago, which Lefties and foolish morons from nations that are crap piles, and deserve to be – Mossadegh was elected. He also was wooing the Communists – in a year when the Russian and Chicom war to take over all Korea was raging, Communist revolutions were in progress in SE Asia, attempts in Greece. And trying to take British assets w/o compensation.

He was warned we would not tolerate him bringing the Soviets in again, and any nationalization must compensate the Brits for investments. He ignored that, and so was deposed.

To the Left and the terrorists that run Iran, Mossadegh is a hero, and they love their lurid conspiracies. Even though the Mullahs would have imprisoned or executed a man with Mossadeghs many un-Islamic flaws had he been contemporary with the Islamists.

Your stats appear to be pulled out of your ass. We use 20% of the oil production, make a third of our supply ourselves, and could make 70% if not for environmentalists blocking drilling, coal liquification, oil shale use. Not 60% of the oil.
And China is the largest carbon user. Likely has been for 15 years if you include the CO2 released from thousands of coal mine fores the Chinese consider too much a waste of money to put out. So 60s is your America-hating based on “evil energy users” and your dumbass smear of Americans ….being fat (a stat only true of white Southerners, Mexican-Americans, and especially obese, black women and children)

Sounds like a win-win to me. We can then send those troops someplace useful. Say, Afghanistan or where Herunar lives.

“Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time… Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in
strength.”
– General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

There’s not alot we can do to stop it and short term it would solve some problems for us. Both we and the Chinese want the DPRK nuclear program halted. Not because it threatens them, but it is a major thorn in the side of Japan. Above all China doesn’t want a nuclear Japan and they are on the verge of going there if the DPRK restarts their weapons program.

Long term they would probably tolerate a unified Korea in exchange for vastly fewer US troops on the peninsula.