> Look at the paradise that is Iraq. Iraq was held together by a strongman of one of two secterian factions on the country, who when the country collapsed went

> Look at the paradise that is Iraq. Iraq was held together by a strongman of one of two secterian factions on the country, who when the country collapsed went right back to killing each other. I don't think any such analogous situation exists in North Korea, it would be much more like East Germany, the economy would be horrible for decades, but I doubt it would come to perpetual civil war like Iraq.