Such salient wisdom. The fact is that the west has been dealing with North Korea for decades. The US, for example, has had huge numbers of military forces stag

Such salient wisdom. The fact is that the west has been dealing with North Korea for decades. The US, for example, has had huge numbers of military forces staged in South Korea for decades. The US and others have continuously worked toward keeping North Korea in check, also for decades. That's not easy, nor is it cheap. But there are no quick and easy solutions to the problem of the North Korean totalitarian regime, especially not military ones. Starting a war in the Korean peninsula is a recipe for hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, in South Korea as well as in the North. And that's just from conventional weapons without getting into chemical weapons (which North Korea is known to have) and nuclear weapons (which they also are known to have). The problem of North Korea is that it's a hostage crisis that continues to unfold in slow motion. The fact that there are incredibly terrible conditions inside North Korea doesn't make it any easier to decide to pull the trigger and doom perhaps millions of civilians to die just to get rid of the regime.