• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    Well the real answer is they have nuclear and the backing of another nuclear nation of over a billion people right next door

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      The fact that Seoul is within artillery range of North Korea is a far larger deterrent. China doesn’t care enough about NK to realistically use nukes in their defense

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        NK is china’s human/nuclear meat shield. plus it most likely would anger/piss of other asian countries nearby, which are frenemies with the us.