We suspect that the deployment of Chinese troops is just a diplomatic message to the whack job running North Korea. But what if it isn't? We were stunned when President Trump ordered the strike on Syria. What if he and the Chinese have had enough?
Well, someone's already written a book that covers this. From To Defend the Earth's 2nd chapter:
Six hours into their massive assault, Chinese field commanders reported that the lead brigades of two infantry and two mechanized divisions were across the Yalu and fighting to consolidate their bridgeheads. The already battered and shell-shocked North Korean troops, desperately fighting in isolated and ever shrinking pockets, could not hear the drone of engines high above, the second wave of transport aircraft carrying crack Chinese paratroopers south to Pyongyang. As planned Liao-pen ordered two reserve infantry divisions to begin crossing the Yalu. Once across these divisions were to advance along two axes toward Pyongyang, one near the coast, and one further inland. The 4th Armored Division would come up behind these two divisions for an eventual dash to Pyongyang.
Liao-pen had been concerned that Kim would lob Scud Missiles into China. He didn’t. Instead he launched them at Japan. None got through, however, as the Japanese Navy’s Aegis destroyers shot them out of the sky. Several dozen North Korean jets also tried to fly across the Sea of Japan, but these were engaged and destroyed by the Japanese air force. By noon the Americans reported that a brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division had secured Yongbyon but could find no weapons of mass destruction. Again? Liao-pen said to himself. Most importantly as far as he was concerned, the coastal column had pushed more than thirty kilometers inside North Korea and was reporting that resistance was slackening dramatically. The inland column was about halfway to Pyongyang.
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