North Korea Problem Complicated By China And Russia

The North Korean problem is not just that this rogue nation state possesses ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons, but that if America gets into a major armed conflict with the Kim regime, both China and Russia could join the fight on behalf of North Korea.

Apart from the fact that all three nations are communist regimes, both China and Russia share a border with North Korea and neither nation will allow territory on its border to be influenced by America. This is a primary reason why neither nation would allow the unification of the Korean peninsula under the leadership of South Korea, an important ally of America.

The experience of the Korean War should be all that is needed to prove this point. During the Korean War, China fought with the North Koreans against America and its U.N. allies and the Soviet Union supplied many of the weapons that were used by the North Korean army.

What this all means is that solving the North Korea problem through military action may be more difficult than it may at first appear.