Not one dime from the US or Japan or South Korea. Let China handle it.
Or let the people starve and the military regime collapse. Better a pound of suffering today than an ounce of suffering for all time.
Or let the people starve and the military regime collapse. Better a pound of suffering today than an ounce of suffering for all time.
Those are not necessarily connected, but of course it's easy to command a couple of million people to starve when you and yours are not personally affected.
Why would you provide aid to someone who intends to use that aid to attack you?
Starving out North Korea to win the war will leave behind nothing worth rescuing.
I'm not trying to be provocative. I just can't for the life of me find an argument for preserving anything in the DPRK aside from human life. Since the parent post is effectively arguing that ending the North Korean regime is worth sacrificing some number of people, I'm struggling to understand your counter-argument.
And from where does the Kim regime get its enforcers?
From the same pool of citizens that will be starving.
There may be some trickle-down of food and medicine to those that oversee the dirty work, but when things get dire enough even they will see the writing on the wall.
Helping North Korea merely prolongs the status quo, and has been the case for decades. What would the Korean peninsula look like today if the international community had ignored the DPRK during its 1994-1998 famine?
What kind of god is a god who does nothing or can be thwarted by the actions of mortals (e.g. the United States, UN and South Korea)?
It's not unreasonable to think that even among the most fervent Kim-worshippers, the elder Kims could still be revered but the current Great Leader seen as "unworthy". After all, he is Kim Jong-il's fourth son and spent time in the West.
Although something less theatrical would probably be better for stability in the aftermath.
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/the-interview-north-korean-de...
Or it could be run by a post-coup civilian government on track to complete unification with the South, and devoid of a nuclear program.