There is no such thing as right in the mechanism that actuate the fates of all geopolitical players, only the gears of power, interest, and perception. Right is just a strident, but tiny and usually totally ineffectual distraction that adheres to the surfaces of perception, which itself is usually subsumed or overwhelmed by more forceful gears of power and interest.
China's strategy in Korean peninsula
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Blackstone
Brigadier
Difference is Iran hasn't threatened to turn US into ash, and DPRK has. So, a treaty was reached with Iran on nuclear weapon development, but not with North Korea. The world might not revolve around American hegemony these days, but nations that threatens nuclear attacks on America deserve what's coming to them.
AssassinsMace
Lieutenant General
Well someone is lying because South Korea and Japan blame China for their polluted air.
Northern Manchuria is in the latitudes where the trade wind blows primarily from west by north west to east by south east. The fact that prevailing wind in Manchuria comes from the north east over Siberia and Central Asia, and not from the west over the immense thermal inertia of the Pacific Ocean, is the main reason why Manchuria is so cold in the winter.
So extreme northern Japan can receive pollution originating from Manchuria.
Southern Japan and Korea, not so much.
Incidentally, Manchuria is at almost the same latitude as France and Germany. The fact that the French love their nuclear power so much and the Germans not so is also attributable to the fact that prevailing wind is so predictable and at this latitude blows from west to east. You see, most of the nuclear power plants in France is located on its eastern border with Germany. If one of them melts down, prevailing wind ensures Germany gets bulk of the fallout.
Equation
Lieutenant General
It doesn't matter if the "forceful gears of power and interest" is by US or anyone at all. The fact remains that the US has uses them for their own liking and advantage. That ALONE disqualifies them to be a "democracy" or "champion of freedom". Regime changing and policing the world is a tyrannical act.
Equation
Lieutenant General
Has the DPRK threat killed any lives lately? Is it more dangerous and deadlier than the US regime change violence?
No it doesn't. The fact remains the US with few exceptions, the US has usually perceived it to be advantageous to itself to support regimes generally less tyrannical than those that have tended to be favored by its main opponents.
No one said the US is a true democracy or that it champions freedom out of the goodness of its heart. It so happens it can convincingly exhibit more of the outward signs of democracy than most, and its interests happen to lie more often than not in exerting its considerable power to make other countries more like itself, which in more cases than not, represent a increase in the measures traditionally considered yardsticks of personal, political and economic freedom.
Equation
Lieutenant General
The idea that the US is the exception is a fallacy...period.
No, it has a lot of fundamental geographic and demographic attributes which make it exceptional.
1. It is uniquely situated amongst any major nation such that it has no real landward geopolitical competitors, current or potential, and protected from any potential peer powers by oceanic distances.
2. It is the only major nation so situated that its access to the seas are not choked by geographic choke points.
3. it is the only developed, or for that matter, developing, country that is overendowed with arable land and still retain the capacity to support a large further increase in population. Therefore it is the only major developed country that faces no aging population crisis, and that retains the capacity to sustain significant economic growth rate over the next century. Currently there is one American for every 5 Chinese or Indian. Current population growth trends projects that in 100 years, there will be 6 Americans for every 10 Chinese or Indians.
4. It along with Russia and Brazil are the only major country with the geological potential for energy independence in the near future.
5. While its social and economic mobility is overhyped, it is still greater than those of any other major nation, and it has demonstrated the capacity to generate and profit from innovation greater than any other nation.
Of all the countries that had been great powers in the last 200 years, America is the only one that has fundamental reasons for being able remain so for the next 100 years.