US, China and National Reunification of Korean Peninsular

The Korean Peninsular lies in a region bordering on China, Japan and Russia, potential US competitors. Both China and the US resorted to force to reunify the Peninsula. Now that the Cold War has ended, the reunification of the two Koreas has become more urgent.

The US has always thought of the Peninsular as its “last frontier”, though its official statements support the reunification. DPRK’s nuclear problem has proven an impediment to the process as the DPRK would like to use the nuclear card in exchange for a formal treaty with the US. However, the US finds ways to maintain some sort of military presence here. Here the US faces challenges from China. China has always thought that it has the responsibility to participate in talks on Korea. With increasing trade with both North and South Koreas, it has recently chosen  to be the mediator rather than the “decision maker”. It also has interest in maintaining the status quo so that the buffer zone is preserved. Moreover, China would like Korea’s nuclear card to be the bargaining chip in the recovery of Taiwan. Many people believe that the reunification of the Korean Peninsular will proceed at the same pace with the return of Taiwan to China. However, the most important factors in all this is the DPRK and the ROK.

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