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> what can NATO + Japan do? There is a solution to North Korea as it stands today. Chaos will take care of the regime eventually. Chaos is undefeated when it c
by adventured 5y ago
> what can NATO + Japan do?
There is a solution to North Korea as it stands today. Chaos will take care of the regime eventually. Chaos is undefeated when it comes to wiping out totalitarian systems (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 year old totalitarian regimes that are thriving today). That system won't stand forever. Plan as best as possible for what to do whenever the Kim dynasty finally implodes, whenever it inevitably gets toppled from within.
The primary concern is a Myanmar style military junta, backed by China, taking over. Then you're more or less just back to square one. Unfortunately that's by far the most likely scenario. China has zero interest in seeing a unified Korea, in the model of South Korea, on its border - they will not allow it, and they have the capability to easily prevent it.
- dmurray 5y ago> (quick, name a couple dozen 100-300 year old totalitarian regimes that are thriving today) That seems an unfair bar to set. There aren't dozens of liberal democracies with that long a history, either. The flagship oldest democracies (Athens, Revolutionary France) didn't last any longer than that. Arguably the USA is doing the best at 250-ish years. I don't dispute that NK's juche seems less likely to be stable in the long term than, say, Switzerland, but this seems the wrong way to go about the argument.
- ssijak 5y agoWell, I would not call US before 13th amendment a democracy and that was 150 years ago. But to your point, liberal democracies are a new phenomenon.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThe US couldn't even be called a democracy until the end of Jim Crow.