What's Going on in North Korea?

This is the quiz, that everyone keeps asking me!

Although it is an perfect question! Nobody knows for sure...well nobody covering of North Korea anyway!

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Will there be an additional one war?

Well, as they say, "That is so last century!" In fact, the one that was started back last century (1950) has never ended! It's an armistice. A truce; it is not a treaty to end a war. So we have been at war with them for 59 years.

Why is Seoul settled so close to the border?

You have probably heard that Seoul is only 40 miles from the North Korean border. Yep, just a short missile toss from the most militarized border in the world. I guess the real quiz, is, Why is the South's capital so close to the border?

Well, we have to look at history for that; Seoul has been the capital for colse to 500 years. After the Japanese occupation and Second World War two regimes sprung up on the Korean peninsula. The Communists to the North and a Democratic regime to the South (South's regime turned out to be an additional one dictatorship, but that's not for today's discussion.) So whoever controlled the old capital had or at least seemed to have a more legitimate claim to be the government of Korea. So the South Koreans were kind of stuck with keeping the capital here even though the Americans and others recommend they move the capital.

What's China going to do?

I am not sure what China will do, but I am pretty sure I know what they are not going to do; they will not let the North's regime collapse! And there are three good reasons why!

1. If North Korea collapses there will be millions of refugees crossing the border into China seeing for food.

2. South Korea has huge investments in China and the Chinese are concerned that if The North and South Korea reunify, South Koreans will pull their investments out of China to spend in the North.

3. If South Korea takes over the North, China will have an American ally right on their doorstep.

What's Going on in North Korea?

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