Doomsday scenario plan would divide North Korea

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24182193

Doomsday scenario plan would divide North Korea

t sounds like a doomsday scenario drawn up by strategists at the height of the Cold War.

Chinese armies move south into the Korean peninsula and collide with American and South Korean forces moving north. The resulting clashes spark war between nuclear-armed superpowers.

A new report says such a confrontation is still a real danger in the event of a sudden collapse of the North Korean regime.

The report produced by the US research institute, the Rand Corporation, says that North Korea is a failing state that could fall apart at any moment.

It says agreement is urgently needed between Washington and Beijing on contingency plans - including setting up a temporary line of division inside North Korea to keep their armies apart.

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North Korea may survive as a totalitarian anomaly for another two decades. But no-one in the neighbouring capitals can be confident that calamity won't strike next week.

(continued, explains why they're religious in the south?)

[klr]

...
it sounds like a doomsday scenario drawn up by strategists at the height of the Cold War.
...

Yep, it does, which is why no-one is paying any attention to it.


Better doom-mongering next time.

[Clinton Huxley]

Id like to see Scrumple go mad and become a cheermonger.

[klr]

It'll never happen ...

[cronus]

Every cloud has a silvery lining. Don't ask me where. I haven't a Geiger counter.

[Coito ergo sum]

If we split North Korea, then it would be South Korea, North Korea, and North North Korea. In another 60 years, we can split North North Korea int North North Korea and North North North Korea. And so on, eventually we would reach the limit, where the distance between the Yalu River and the last split Korea would approach, but not exactly reach zero. Then the conflict would be mathematically at an end.

[laklak]

And each time a bit of North Korea became Another Bit Formerly Known As North Korea there'd be a massive surplus of cute Asian mail order brides. Prices would drop drastically and the market would be chaotic unless the gummint intervened. I suggest state exchanges that would benefit both brides and grooms.

[klr]

If we split North Korea, then it would be South Korea, North Korea, and North North Korea. In another 60 years, we can split North North Korea int North North Korea and North North North Korea. And so on, eventually we would reach the limit, where the distance between the Yalu River and the last split Korea would approach, but not exactly reach zero. Then the conflict would be mathematically at an end.

... or it would continue in an infinite regression series.