>I can reasonably infer they don't much care about them. No, you can't. You can infer that there are other factors that you are, bizarrely, ignoring. >Given t

>I can reasonably infer they don't much care about them. No, you can't. You can infer that there are other factors that you are, bizarrely, ignoring. >Given that the North Korean probably fare better under military intervention, I suspect that military intervention is a better option than most people think. It's possible that military intervention may be better for the people of North Korea. But you're not thinking of the total costs of such intervention: the devastation of South Korea, possibly even nuclear attacks on major Japanese cities. This is why the situation is so difficult: all of the options have titanic costs.