Quote Originally Posted by Cliff View Post
Even more importantly, China doesn't want to have to deal with the flood of refugees and cost of dealing with a truly failed PDRK. Not to mention the fact that they would lose the use of the PDRK as a distraction to the US and ROK... think of all the money and military power that would be rolled right up to the PRC border if the Koreas were to re-unite...

In truth I don't think the ROK really wants to deal with a failed PDRK either, they're doing too good economically and the track record (reference E/W Germany) isn't the best...

-Cliff
If one follows the news it appears that the location of the naval exercise seems to be drifting eastwards (in other words away from the Chinese coast). Lets see to what extent the US will fold to the demands of the Chinese.