If open war were to erupt on the Korean Peninsula, how would China react?
[2008-03-31 00:07:33]

Q: If North Korea were to launch an invasion into South Korea right now (or vice versa) and engage in direct war with south Korean and US forces, how would China react. If open warfare were to erupt on the peninsula, what would their Neighbor up north do?

A: The leaders of the People's Republic of China wouldn't get involved in the fight, (for many years now, they have been making tons of US Dollars in the US Markets and their economy has come to depend on this source of income).

The North

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Is war likely in the Korean peninsula, given the threat from the north of military action against the south?
[2009-05-27 01:53:43]
Photo of the day, Dec. 12, 2011

The old man in the north says the armistice no longer applies. He says that the south's participation in exercises justify military action.

Is this going to become Korean War 2?

Technically the Korean War has not ended. There has been no official peace agreement between the belligerents to end the war. The current arrangement is called an armistice, which is a pause in the fighting. So if “war” were to start again, it

Samsung SDS wins project in Saudi Arabia

19.05.12

By Kim Yoo-chul

Information technology solutions firm Samsung SDS has taken a meaningful step toward smart convergence, which means a combination of digital devices, networks and software.

Attention is being focused on whether the company can revive its stalling business momentum outside the Korean Peninsula by striking a ``sizable deal.’’

On Monday, SDS said it has been chosen by Saudi Arabian Oil, a state-run petroleum firm also known as Saudi Aramco as the provider of digital convergence know-how for a building project in the Saudi city of Dhahran.

The

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How powerful would the Korean peninsula become if they united?
[2010-05-19 09:05:57]
Lim Sung-nam (01910164)

North Korea is developing nuclear weapons and has a lot of open farmland for agriculture as well as a lot of extra space for factories and companies. Also, North Korea has the biggest standing army (correct me if I'm wrong). South Korea, already a small

And North Korea is one of the poorest nations on earth whose people are starving. A unified Korea would have all the problems of a unified Germany multiplied 100 fold. The enormous cost of trying to "fix" the North and the decades it would

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What does Japan have to do with the Korean Peninsula? And how are Korea and the United States related?
[2009-04-19 15:26:50]
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What does Japan have to do with this all?
Like with these issues: nuclear missile testing, starvation/famine, U.S. aid, the North Korean satellite launcher, and like unification? I am so confused with this all.

Japan took over the Korean peninsula in WWII. When Japan surrendered. Korea was split. The Russian controlled North and the American controlled South. 1950 comes around and North Korea attack South Korea. We come in when and are there in the Korean War

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