Do you really think China cares much about USA? They'll put Korea first, especially now that America is retreating into Nationalism.

@Hobartian Neither will allow the Koreas to merge, for China that would put a potential US ally on the border, and the US would not want to lose South Korea. Not that they would co=operate on it.

@Rugglesby maybe China cares about the trillions US owes it. The whole scenario is extremely interesting. I think the two K's will merge but under what ideology? NK leadership is not to be trusted, Un is a psycopathic - he musn't be let loose

@Hobartian I think his haircut alone is cause for concern.

I think the big difference is that the two Germaies were never at war with each other. Even East Germany was seen as a Russian puppet, not a separate nation that tried to take over West Germany. It's more like VietNam re-uniting. And that wasn't pleasant.

@RonWilliam53 Totally agree...big difference!

The question is, would Kim be willing to give up power because he's got no chance in a democratic Korea.

@RonWilliam53 I don't think he would "give up" power. He would create a delegation that acted as an international body that communicated with the rest of the world, and the south, but still reported to him.

@Jake625 But that would negate the issue of Korea re-uniting. There's really no honest way he'd win an election in a united Korea, especially after the North Koreans saw what the South had -real food! I talked to folks who knew the Soviet Union and they all said it's collapse was imminent as soon as its citizens could visit the West and see what the western consumers had to offer. One told me his mother had a near breakdown the first time she went into a grocery store because there were too many choices. she was used to having one kind of anything, if anything at all.

I think Kim recognizes that tRump would be totally willing to cut and run from SK and the south Pacific to get a deal.And that he is easily flattered and manipulated.

@RonWilliam53 Or are the American People going to be manipulated again,and again. He will never show or any had intention of showing which is why he fired the latter to inject the former. Pre tel, where does SK and the South Pacific weigh into as being a matter of concern or relevance

@Nevermind345 China is happy to scoop up influence in their area as they expand it in other areas. tRump may indeed herald he end of American global leadership,for better or for worse. He's already handed the ME over to Russia and its allies. Though, in fairness, Dubya started that ball rolling in 2003.

Do you have access to a dictionary of any kind? I'm sure it would be helpful.

@Nevermind345 We, in Australia are in the SW Pacific. We are currently under covert attack fromChina - they're buying up huge slabs of our natural resources, doesn't matter what it is, ports, farms, big ones, they're buying big time. I hate to think what can happen if China aligns with Korea as a unified country, my country will be lost to unified Asia.

I don't think so - NK doesn't have the resources. That's why there'll be a re-union - what happens after that is the point.

@Hobartian I think I just expect the absolute worst outcomes concerning Trump, yet he often still disappoints by exceeding my worst expectations.

@snytiger6 It's beyond belief what's happening in USA politics. Talk about a slippery snake in the Oval Office - am waiting, waiting for Mueller to nail the bastard. Meanwhile, Chump sticks to the evangelicals who put him there and keeping him there. I saw on CNN last night that the reason why the WH Chaplain was fired - enough Republicans in the House want an evalgelical there, married with kids! amazing

What could ever make you think that something positive could become of this "olive branch" as at least a gesture of good faith. This is not Israel were talking with or the Koch Brothers.