re: #69 zombie

The Korean War is not over. Remember that in 1953, all that was agreed to was a temporary ceasefire. Neither side surrendered, neither side won. Technically, the country is still at war.

Because of this, I propose:

North Korea is one of those illusory police states that seem fearsome, but which would crumple at the slightest touch. The best comparable example was the Iraq government and military in 1990 and then again in 2003; they were touted as the most powerful military in the Middle East, and a brutal police state, but when they ran into some real soldiers (i.e. American soldiers), they collapsed in a matter of days like a house of cards.

If we (i.e. the US and South Korea) just crashed in to North Korea and seized Pyongyang in 18 hours (which is all it would take), the North Korean government and army would disintegrate in a flash. Yes, war is horrible, invasions are bad, yadda yadda yadda, but what’s worse in condemning tens of millions of people to live in Hell for their entire lives.

What don’t we liberate North Korea. I suspect there would be tears of joys all over North Korea if we did.

Seoul would be destroyed. NK is weak and not as strong as they project themselves to be. And, South Korea and the US could roll over NK in short order. BUT, we know they have thousands of artillery pieces trained on Seoul and not all them could be taken out. Hundreds of thousands of people would die in that conflict. The entire population of NK has been brainwashed to hate the USA and the South…..it would be very, very ugly.

I think we have to wait for Kim Jung Il to die and then try to “persuade” what is left of the leadership to drop those “clenched-fists”.