-Ocelot- wrote:The New California Republic wrote:To be honest things have settled down quite a bit over the past year. I'm pragmatic enough to have a "let's wait and see" attitude.
Wasn't this the Obama approach?
If nobody does nothing, won't NK develop a fully-fledged arsenal of ICBMs that can hit the USA?
Honestly, there isn't a circumstance where the military leaders of North Korea would let Kim Jong Un near the kill everything death button.
Industrial Skyrim wrote:Special Aromas wrote:Why would the world economy want or allow the long term survival or enrichment of his regime? The Kim families punitive treatment of their citizens is the reason they're isolated in the first place, the arms race came later.
There's a regime that killed more people than Hitler and the Nazis, and which continues to oppress religious and ethnic minorities, going so far as to segregating some of them into reeducation camps against their will. That regime is in command of China, the largest national economy by purchasing power parity (PPP). Money talks, and the world largely ignores the crimes of the Chinese Communist Party. They will also ignore Kim if he joins the global economy and contributes to global prosperity.
Stastically, most of the world's powerful nations has committed some kind of hideous act of violence in the last 200 years. Singling out China for their actions doesn't really mean anything but we are going off topic.