Reply #13: I don't know [View All]

[RZM]

There are plenty in the South who wouldn't want to take that risk. Even setting aside the nukes, they have a lot of conventional artillery trained on Seoul. The South would have to bear the brunt of any last-minute flailing the regime did. Plus, the economic reunification of Korea would make the Germany thing look like a walk in the park. I've heard it argued that the 'dirty little secret' among many in the South is that they'd actually just rather not deal with it for that reason.

I'd say a better hope is subtler means of undermining the regime (not that there are all that many ways to do that) and trying to pressure China to withdraw support, if not call for the regime's ouster. Maybe someday the regime will collapse on its own.

But I don't know, I don't see any of those things happening in even the medium-term.