USA tolerated and continues to tolerate and even support rogue regimes or monarchies from South Africa to Sudan to Saudi Arabia to Suharto Indonesia…

A clue, Sherlock, S Africa is no longer a “rogue country”, it is just becoming another black-run country transforming into an unsafe, corrupt shithole. The US does not support the Sudan regime. Muslims and Chinese do. We “tolerate” KSA, because the alternative the people want is extremist Islam. And where the fuck have you been, brainless one – on Indonesia. Suharto is long-gone and a US-supported fledgling democracy is in place.

As for your tears about the Iran coup over half a century ago, which Lefties and foolish morons from nations that are crap piles, and deserve to be – Mossadegh was elected. He also was wooing the Communists – in a year when the Russian and Chicom war to take over all Korea was raging, Communist revolutions were in progress in SE Asia, attempts in Greece. And trying to take British assets w/o compensation.

He was warned we would not tolerate him bringing the Soviets in again, and any nationalization must compensate the Brits for investments. He ignored that, and so was deposed.

To the Left and the terrorists that run Iran, Mossadegh is a hero, and they love their lurid conspiracies. Even though the Mullahs would have imprisoned or executed a man with Mossadeghs many un-Islamic flaws had he been contemporary with the Islamists.

Your stats appear to be pulled out of your ass. We use 20% of the oil production, make a third of our supply ourselves, and could make 70% if not for environmentalists blocking drilling, coal liquification, oil shale use. Not 60% of the oil.
And China is the largest carbon user. Likely has been for 15 years if you include the CO2 released from thousands of coal mine fores the Chinese consider too much a waste of money to put out. So 60s is your America-hating based on “evil energy users” and your dumbass smear of Americans ….being fat (a stat only true of white Southerners, Mexican-Americans, and especially obese, black women and children)

Sounds like a win-win to me. We can then send those troops someplace useful. Say, Afghanistan or where Herunar lives.

“Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time… Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in
strength.”
– General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson

There’s not alot we can do to stop it and short term it would solve some problems for us. Both we and the Chinese want the DPRK nuclear program halted. Not because it threatens them, but it is a major thorn in the side of Japan. Above all China doesn’t want a nuclear Japan and they are on the verge of going there if the DPRK restarts their weapons program.

Long term they would probably tolerate a unified Korea in exchange for vastly fewer US troops on the peninsula.

Actually, it’s irrelevant who wants NK. The point is that someone will go in there if there’s a power vaccum. In that situation there’s only two logical parties: China and South Korea.

China’s reasons are mainly strategic, and less to do with the minerals and more about further securing it’s Northeastern flank from Japan (and by extension the US).

South Korea’s reasons are mostly emotional – reunification has been touted as a political solution for many of what South Korea’s people think ills them. Even those on the left-of-center would consider reunification vital if South Korea is to rid itself of the US. If a situation occured where it looked like Reunification was possible, yet outside parties (such as China or the US) tried to prevent it, it would spark a political firestorm in SK, enough to push them to war.

As I mentioned earlier, the ROK should make Kim a Deal He Can’t Refuse. However, given the absoultely enormous dependency NK already has with China, it’s very unlikely China hasn’t already set up the pieces for their own takeover.