>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 pe

>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. My point is, sometimes, that's not considered a barrier to regime change. Mass civilian deaths were apparently worth it in the cases of iraq and afghanistan. Those deaths were, and are, "justified" by the moral good of the removal of evil dictators. So no, I don't think we should invade NK, for the obvious reasons you state. I'm saying that the impunity with which NK oppresses its people exposes the nonsense that is the "liberal intervention" narrative of recent geopolitics.