North Korea begging to have the s*** bombed out of them.

Not to mention that none of your silly rant has any bearing on N Korea. You apparently DO NOT keep up with current affairs. The US wants a diplomatic effort including regional actors like S Korea, Japan, and the PRC to help work out the problem. N Korea is refusing, saying they ONLY want to deal with the US.

 

Cohen - excellent post.

 

What country did China threaten to invade? Tibet would be free, Taiwan would not need to worry, and there would have been no Korean War and no Vietnam War.
I may be wrong, but I don't think you lump Korea and Vietnam into the same bucket.

Didn't North Vietnam receive its communist support from the USSR versus PRC? In particular, I don't think the PRC would have come to the aid of North Vietnam if the US had been on the verge of winning the war.

I do know the Chinese and the Vietmese do not like each other, going back centuries. I do not think that this is the case with the Chinese and the Koreans.

 

Thanks Sonny.

 

<A HREF="http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/vietnam.htm">Vietnam War</A>

<i>.....In 1965, US air strikes were ordered against North Vietnam. By late 1965, such air strikes became part and parcel to daily activities of those stationed in Vietnam. But US forces were not permitted to attack some targets for fear of Chinese retaliation. The perceived danger from Communist China influenced President Johnson's choice of means for ensuring the survival of a South Vietnam independent of the North. In 1950, when United Nations forces threatened to overrun North Korea, China had come to the aid of its Communist neighbor. <b>As the Vietnam War intensified in 1965 and 1966, so, too, did the Chinese commitment to the survival of North Vietnam. By the spring of the latter year, some 50,000 Chinese troops served in North Vietnam, a total that may have tripled before China began to withdraw its forces in 1968. Until President Johnson limited ROLLING THUNDER to southern North Vietnam, effective April 1, 1968, China gave refuge to North Vietnamese fighters when airfields in the North came under aerial attack, and reports surfaced of Chinese pilots flying North Vietnamese interceptors. During this period of involvement, China made no secret of its sympathy for the Hanoi government; prudence therefore required that the Johnson administration consider the possibility of further Chinese intervention. Concern that China might react as it had fifteen years earlier in Korea argued powerfully for relying on air power rather than invasion to convince Hanoi to call off the war in the South.</b> Having turned to air power, the Johnson administration chose to apply it in a gradually escalating fashion. President John F. Kennedy's recent success in compelling the Soviet Union to with draw bombers and ballistic missiles from Cuba bred confidence in the gradual application of force.........</i>

<A HREF="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/weapons.html">Vietnam War Weapons & Supplies</A>

<i>.........Although most of their weapons, uniforms, and equipment were provided by the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, the North Vietnamese also carried..........

<b>DP 7.62 mm Light Machine Gun</b>
The North Vietnamese used the DP light machine gun as their squad-level, automatic support weapon. This counterpart to the American M-60 fed cartridges using a pan magazine or belt, and had a range of about 875 yards. Based on a Soviet design, the DP 7.62 was provided to the Vietnamese by both China and the Soviet Union............

<b>Rifle</b>

Both the Chinese and the Russians provided variations on the SK-47 rifle in quantity to Communist forces. Known as a "peasant rifle," the AK-47 was simple in its design, reliable, and accurate. It fired a 7.62 mm bullet either automatically or semi-automatically from a 30- round clip at a rate of up to about 600 rounds per minute, and performed with accuracy at up to 435 yards.........</i>