"There's no doubt the people are starving to death, even reports of cannibalism have come out of that country I think, and yes sanctions play a role in starving people, look at what it did to Iraq after they invaded Kuwait."
And the oil for food program was supposed to hamper the effects on the civilian populous, yet we know what happened to that, don't we?
"What's the alternative to letting N. Korea progress at its own pace and at Kim's pace? Invasion? Fine, you get yourself another Iraq, likely more famine and insurgency than in Iraq that lasts atleast 5 years, how many die then? And what comes out of it? Will North Korea be insantly prosperous? No, they'll probably be exploited for slave wages and that will be their freedom and liberation. Sure they might be fed, but working for pennies making computer parts for us. Even worse N. Korea doesn't have oil to give..."
Nobody mentioned anything about preemptively invading North Korea, that's because most of us already know the outcome. I guess you just presumed us oil stealin' yankee boys would suggest it, but thankfully you've shot down the idea already!
"There's no doubt Kims a bit looney, but he's got a nuke, okay, he's got his toy now, hopefully he'll be content with that for a while and start to feed his people now that he's accomplished that goal."
Yeah hey, maybe deep down in side, Kim is a cuddly bear just acheing to help his people- but hey, you know, he really couldn't help them out, he was too busy arming himself with a nuke to secure the stalinist rule over North Korea for infinity.
This way, if North Korea ever attacked the South again, they wouldn't be invaded should they be pushed back. Not cuddly Kim, though, he'd never try to unite the peninsula under his regime.
Probably wouldn't work, but things that work don't seem to interest NK- why else would they still be useing a failed form of government?
"If not, then it's up to the N. Koreans to change their life as bloody as it gets, regime change should occur by the people subjected to its mistreatment not foreign powers. Democratic nations should allow for exiles but shouldn't fund them, they should fund themselves and if they are a popular movement they shouldn't have that big of a problem, especially if they're given asylum in westernized nations."
This is the most short-sighted idea i've ever heard about the crisis.
Not only do you suggest the North Korean populous should start a rebellion, who are impoverished, nationally brain-washed, and held over an iron grip under a police state (that's putting it lightly)- but you also suggest no state can help to sponser such a rebellion.
Truely unbelievable.
"Economic sanctions do not work. You don't starve Kim, he has palaces bigger than Sadam's. You just starve the people and give Kim more reason to keep N. Korea isolated. Time will tell..."
A prosperous North Korea means a prosperous dictator and military.