Actually the American way of thinking is to take North Korea itself. My China taking North Korea is a one world government way of thinking. Think about it. North Korea's days are numbered. They offer nothing to everyone. Now that we ramped up to almost full capacity placed like North Korea are a fucking joke. No one on the planet is going to believe that they are powerful. America will let china have N.Korea and their woman.
Dude, NK is only a place on the map, even China doesn't want it. It has no power at all.
1,2 million soldiers, but the equipment is from the 1960s.
America doesn't want NK, nobody wants it. Kim Jong Il is old and very sick, he will die soon and then his stupid son will have a lot of problems in earning his place in the government which is ruled by Generals. If he succeeds, the country will fall apart in 20 years, if he fails, the country will go into war with SK or civil war in NK.
If they start a war with SK, i believe that ultimately China will force NK to stop from the North and the US-SK allied forces will destroy the rest. The war will not go further than 30km on SK land.
NK knows this as well, they are only bluffing, so paying them money is pretty dumb, because they try to hold the US for ransom without even having a hostage.