Were that to happen, China would own NoKo. Fine by me. That’s kinda like me inheriting twenty glorious and valuable acres of toxic waste dump.
China won’t ever want to annex N Korea. Far better they control all the unutilized natural resources the NORKs have failed to get in production because no one will invest there.
Let S Korea pay for reclaiming the dump, given they want Reunification with the “cousins”. Meanwhile, China, if it does control the place through generals they have cultivated, have likely 30 years to seriously work on ripping the mineral wealth of the nation away to fuel China’s inexhaustible needs..
And the US might just be fine with that scheme, and not just because Bush let China destroy so many jobs and get in hock so much to Chinese bankers that we dare not say no. If we know Chian controls the place, they also control the missiles and handful of primitive nuke warheads and the NORKs stash of nerve gas and bioweapons.
Making the world a safer place.
We and the one-time occupiers the Japanese, though, would object to any Chinese annexation. As would the S Koreans, who are moving more and more to China’s sphere as America declines. Annexation would stop that S Korean trend cold.
