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Originally Posted by Boxcar Overkill
North Korea can barely feed it's army, let alone beat South Korea.
S. Korea had the misfortune of placing their capitol within rocket-propelled artillery range of the DMZ. Consequently, the N. Koreans have millions of tubes concreated into the ground, ready to destroy Seoul in a minutes notice. In the long run, N. Korea would get smoked - but not before Seoul was leveled. So its more like blackmail than war.
Our only real interest there is preventing N. Korea from making and selling Nukes on the blackmarket.
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Our largest interest in North Korea is that it would end up unified with South Korea and become the second largest industrial nation behind China. South Korean industrial might is nothing to be scoffed at, and its merging with its nuclear northern neighbor would completely alter the geopolitical balance of power in Asia.
This is something that Madeleine Albright let slip at a state dinner back during the Clinton administration. As you point out, North Korea can't even feed its own people and suffers tremendously from it paranoid leader.
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