Korea is a much more complicated situation. Consider that roughly 20 million people live within 20 miles of the border with North Korea (and the highest concentration of their weapons) in highly developed cities. Any kind of preemptive action here would certainly involve the deaths of millions. I'm with elau on this one, the Chinese are the ones with their hands on the leash and they have more reason to keep NK under control than we do. The unfortunate part is that they will likely tolerate anything so long as it stays in NK. The best way to bring down the North is through economic means, and I don't know if that means we wait for them to fold, or we build them up so the people have something worth resisting their government for. In any case the reunification of the North and South will be like nothing we have ever seen before. Total integration will liikely take over 50 years and make East/West German reunification look like a picnic.

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Jason Priest
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