China occupying North Korea

Lets say Kim, the virtual dictator or whatever he likes to be called, dies in North Korea, and their is a chaotic period that follows. China believes it would be in its best interest to occupy North Korea to quell the chaos. How would international politics respond to this?

I certainly wouldn't be happy..but certain theories of mine about the repititon of history would be confirmed...

 If China took North Korea, it would wind up with a humongous drain of money and bad PR. Others would say that teh Koreas should unite and China would be stuck with a country where infrastructure is barely developped.

As I understand it, most North Koreans lived in much ignorance of the outside world, and subsisted on official propoganda.

Though a number of North Koreans interacted with Chinese, and even tried defecting via foreign embassies/consulates in the PRC, many would not have forgotten that China was the primary bully historically, and despite the devastations wrought, Japan probably comes second (I am not Korean, so I could be wrong).

It is unlikely that any invasion of North Korea would be easy, given the terrain, their armed forces, and the fact that their citizens may prefer to fight to the death rather than be captured.

In the event of great unrest in North Korea, PRC might secure her borders, and even send troops to stabilise the strategic regions across the borders, but no more. They would not attempt to occupy the whole North Korea, and would have nothing to gain by the additional risks.

I am not defending NK's silly national close polocy and dictator Kim family.

But North Korean GNP per capita was double higher  than South Koreans untill 1975. (South Korean GNP per capita was about 700 USD in 1975-North was over 1,300 USD )

When South Korea exported wigs and junk products,they exported agricultural mechanics and heavy trucks.

Its GNP per head had hit USD 1,000 in 1972.

It was  richer than now currently so called 4 Asian Newly Develpoed Nations.

The North Korean economy had started to come down to the dark age when it had heavy conflicts with American navy spy ship(Pueblo ship) and capitalistic international community encouraged not to make trades with NK.

You guys need to think of this that even low natural resources countries like Korea cannot live under good economic production and consumption without trade with international community.

North Korea had more trades with European and middle eastern countries than South Korea did untill 1970's.

Plus NK's communists allies economy had started to struggles too and that was also main reason that NK's economy had started to fall out.

 

 

Edited by stupidumboy

It was  richer than now currently so called 4 Asian Newly Develpoed Nations.

in what way? i dun think so since hong kong's gdp per capita is 28800 usd as of 2003, which is 130% of that of the uk's.

Originally posted by coolstorm It was  richer than now currently so called 4 Asian Newly Develpoed Nations. in what way? i dun think so since hong kong's gdp per capita is 28800 usd as of 2003, which is 130% of that of the uk's.

 

I meant in 1960's ,1970's

Philipine and NK were richer than now currently so called four Asian dragons at that time. I heard many HKers went to philipine for house maid jobs.

Philipine economy started fall down after US base withdrawed and their lefty regime got on power and NK's economy fell down due to the intensed relationship with US and the communism countries economy's low performance started out.

What about the HK's GNP per capita in the past?

 

 

Originally posted by Gubook Janggoon Originally posted by coolstorm It was  richer than now currently so called 4 Asian Newly Develpoed Nations. in what way? i dun think so since hong kong's gdp per capita is 28800 usd as of 2003, which is 130% of that of the uk's. I think he means when NK first started out.  They had so much potential..and they ruined it.

 

I have no idea if they had potential but its said that Japanese remained industrial posts were mainly located in NK territory and thats the main reason they had been more industrialized than SK untill to the middle part of 1970's.

 

 

Originally posted by stupidumboy Originally posted by coolstorm It was  richer than now currently so called 4 Asian Newly Develpoed Nations. in what way? i dun think so since hong kong's gdp per capita is 28800 usd as of 2003, which is 130% of that of the uk's.   I meant in 1960's ,1970's Philipine and NK were richer than now currently so called four Asian dragons at that time. I heard many HKers went to philipine for house maid jobs. Philipine economy started fall down after US base withdrawed and their lefty regime got on power and NK's economy fell down due to the intensed relationship with US and the communism countries economy's low performance started out. What about the HK's GNP per capita in the past?

hk was developed relatively early compared to other three asian dragons. in early 80's, it was already pretty well off with a gdp per capita identical to the uk and it started becoming higher than the uk after mid 80's. today, it's way higher than the uk.

well, i dunno about the house maids but today there are around 300,000 house maids from the philipines, thailand, indonesia etc working in hk. every family has one basically. you see more philipino people on sunday in hk's financial district than chinese. they do picnic in the financial center, central. for some reason they like that. i dunno why. and the police have to close the roads for them to do picnic in central on sunday. the our-door lobby of  hsbc's head quarter is all packed with philipino people on sunday.

 

Edited by coolstorm

Originally posted by stupidumboy OK I know HK was the eariliest develpoed amongst the 4 Asian ANIES  and they overtook UK's economy. Now the one of the most decent financial center etc. And Yes I saw many philipinas house maids in HK. What I meant is that NK's economy was more prousperous than SK untill to the 1975 and the economic situation was different in Asian countries in the past.

   lol....it's soooo hard to get your message across to him sometimes...

you're trying to talk about NK's past economy and he starts talking about picnics somewhere in HK...