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Originally Posted by KiraYamatoFan
In any case, the fact that the country is led by one or more loose cannons is a situation that can hardly be tolerable in the longer term for anybody. Throughout history, loose cannons always end up dead or silenced forever because they are simply too dangerous to be kept around.
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It's not that easy as you think....
-NK have nukes, we don't know how many but they have them. And being crazy as they are I have no doubt that they would nuke their own territory at the first sign of invading army. Pretty much like Russians would if invaded and pushed from their current borders.
-On top of that you have entire nation of fanatics who are taught from birth that everyone except Kim is hating them because they are "superior nation". So invading NK would be pretty much like invading Japan in 1945 - hundreds upon thousands of dead soldiers for the invading force.
-And the biggest issue here: the population itself. North Korea has 24,895,000 people, let that sink in for a while... Let's say that the war is won and Kim is put down from power. You think that those 24+ million people would just sit around and do nothing? As soon as world opens to them and they learn for good western way of life is South Korea and Japan would face immigration crisis like EU is right now - only 10x bigger. And nobody, and I mean nobody wants that large number of refugees.
North Korea will be left alone indefinitely. It's just too costly for anyone to bring them down, and the consequences of their downfall woudl be even bigger for the region. Never-mind world economy as refugees woudl swarm 4 very powerful economic houses and cause havoc.
As it stands North Korea will be left alone, they know it and they are using the best of this situation. Only time will tell what will happen, but as world power slowly shifts from US to China and Russia the question of NK will be open for interpretation in the future.