China's interest to support NK is absolute

 I doubt the current wikileaks are real. There is nothing interesting in the diplomatic cables that is remotely damaging similar to the videos showing helicopter gunships attacking journalists in Iraq. The current wikileaks discussions are just trivial points similar to that of a tabloid. X civil official consorts with busty woman, Sunnis do not like Shiites. There is nothing useful being provided. For somebody who is trying to retaliate against the united states for trying to arrest and imprison him for the video releases, the current diplomatic cables do not seem to incriminate the united states one bit. The type of information released seem like something dreamed up by a insurance salesman turned novelist.

 Supporting North Korea since the Korean War was the single greatest event to ever give China any ounce of credibility. If China never sent troops to force the us to retreat back into South Korea, there would be no independent Vietnam. The united states lost no battles against Vietnam. Unlike the Korean war there were no 50 mile retreats or floods of american marines fleeing the battle zone. The us lost no battle against the Viet Cong.

The onslaught of hundreds of thousands of Chinese troops forced the Americans to make a desperate retreat. As American forces were nearly overrun, they engaged in the largest retreat in U.S. history. By December of 1950, the Communists recaptured Pyongyang. In January, Seoul fell as both sides dug in at the 38th Parallel.


  Since China had not demonstrated any precedence to intervene in a war on its Asian Borders, the United States would have rolled into the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi with tanks and armored personnel carriers and completely overtook the northern half of the country, effectively ending the Vietnam War.

 Such a military policy was impossible solely because of the precedence set during the Korean War. The united states was forced to fight the entire Vietnam War in South Vietnam with one arm tied behind its back because if the us did pursue Viet Cong forces into North Vietnam, that would have been an invitation for the Chinese to enter the war.

 Any reunification would have to come under North Korea or a Pro-Chinese state. A unified Korea under a South Korean government is unacceptable. An extension of South Korea is a retraction of Chinese influence in the Peninsula and an expansion of anti-Chinese sentiment.