User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Discussion Blog: North Korea/@comment-7379056-20130330185939/@comment-7097825-20130331011358

Yes, China's economy is doing well for now, but economies don't grow indefinately, China's economy will fall into recession some point in the future like all economies that are intially doing well.

You do realize that most American debt is owed to American citizens (and that the debt can't be "cashed in" at whim)?

However,  I do think the debt still is a handicap for America in terms of growing its economy (however, most americans clearly don't, proven by the results of the last election cycle...)

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China's Army may be larger, but its poorly equiped and does not have nearly as great logistics as the American Army.

That being said, China's navy is a JOKE compared to America's. China's army has ZERO chance of ever landing in America, and our Navy allows our superior airforce to bear down on China, while China's airforce is not in range of America.

There will never be an all-out nuclear war. North Korea's nuclear weapons are extremely weak (less than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs by a fair amount), and thier delivery system is extremely unreliable, plus given we have missle intereception ability, North Korea is not a huge threat now or in the forseable future.

North Korea as a political entity would be destroyed (and possibly the North Korean capital if their nukes actually do damage to America) and South Korea would reunify the Korean penninsula.

Oh, and anyone who is a high-level member of the North Korean government would be dead or in prison.

North Korea wouldn't physically be wiped off the map Jeremiah.