You're forgetting China's likeness for N Korea. It just won't happen in this time period, period. It's all mumbo-jumbo to stir the pot to try and "solidify" their need for atomic technology by creating unrest. Once they have full-scale weapons they will sit on them and use them to continually cause unrest by methods of threat knowing full well that China will not allow anything bad to happen and protect all sensitive parties involved (for their own gain of course). China will calm united nations by the similar show of forces (ever watch video of a Chinese drill?). Everyone will back off and time will pass again until unrest is caused again and again, then resolved the same way again and again.
Nobody could afford a major Asian war right now.. even the Asian superpowers that be. Free movement of world resources is too important to their well-being right now. It just won't happen over current events. Now.. wait until oil reserves run drastically low on a global scale when we take our transition from fossil to renewable and third world countries who still rely on them go bat-shit-insane. Then you might see a few nukes fly about.
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