This Issues and Insights presents ideas on the three allies’ areas of cooperation in a North Korean contingency, from the question of political integration of the two Koreas and the establishment of governance and rule of law on the Korean Peninsula, as well as cooperation on humanitarian assistance and weapons of mass destruction (WMD) operations, determining the complexities and legal procedures for the threshold of intervention, and how to deal with an independent and authoritarian Chinese Communist Party that will not let its ally share the fruits of peace and prosperity with the global community.