30K troops is a huge commitment of troops. South Korea will be looped in one way or another with military aid , "observer" advisors. Basically, everyone is getting involved in this conflict to test out their equipment and weapons, gain combat experience, test new doctrine, etc.. Interestingly, Chaoxianzu PVA volunteers would fit right in as observers....
I highly doubt if North Korean would allow it. In 2021 there are about 1.7 million ethnic Korean in China. In the mean time there are 630k to 700k Chinese Koreans living in South Korea. That is a scary ratio meaning almost every ethnic Korean in China has some relative or knowing someone who settles permenantly in an enemy state of North Korea.30K troops is a huge commitment of troops. South Korea will be looped in one way or another with military aid , "observer" advisors. Basically, everyone is getting involved in this conflict to test out their equipment and weapons, gain combat experience, test new doctrine, etc.. Interestingly, Chaoxianzu PVA volunteers would fit right in as observers....
Oh definitely, small numbers of observers would be invaluable for knowledge gained. I agree, definitely not large quantities.I highly doubt if North Korean would allow it. In 2021 there are about 1.7 million ethnic Korean in China. In the mean time there are 630k to 700k Chinese Koreans living in South Korea. That is a scary ratio meaning almost every ethnic Korean in China has some relative or knowing someone who settles permenantly in an enemy state of North Korea.
Very few (in the tens) Korean speaking Chinese is probably acceptable as they would be the few that pass strict screening, any larger number in the style of PVA is too risky.
It's probably much higher actually. In the 1970s when SK went turbo discrimination against ethnic Chinese lots of the second and third generation Chinese Koreans stopped identifying as Chinese altogether and just registered their identities as Korean.In the mean time there are 630k to 700k Chinese Koreans living in South Korea.
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