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[bucheon bum]

It's "been on the verge" since 1989.

A theory I heard in a poly sci class once: the more poverty striken a country is, the less likely political change is to occur. Why? Because the people are so improvished that they don't have the means to do anything about their situation. That's the case with North Korea.

And regardless of how many people are starving in the DPRK, you can count on the fact Kim Jong-Il will have a plentiful supply of rice and kimchi no matter what.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[lastat06513]

Those 2 articles are the exact reason why the South is so hesitant to help the US in bringing down the North. They know that they would have to shoulder the burden of the millions of refugees that will pour out of its borders.
The sad thing is that they ALSO know that charity agencies and Aid agencies are not prepared to handle such a case (as seen in the tsunami and the Pakistan cases)
But, there is one way out of it.
Since it is the US that is orchestrating this calamity, they should be the ones to handle it.
Once the regime does collapse under its own weight, the US should help South Korea, Japan and China pick the slack by providing the necessary aid to help with the reconstruction of the country and possibly help with the unification process.
Though this would make South Korea look more reliant on Washington and China would be damned to see another democracy on its doorstep, it is necessary not to treat the civilians in the North as political pawns anymore and give them the necessary push toward a long lasting peace in korea and in the region.


Also....
I feel the more the South tries to play the helping brother in all this, the more people will be disappointed that it failed in the long run.
Koreans must realize that the north is not interested in getting any real help from the South, that is a painful fact that Korean people must face.

People here must understand that the more they help North Korea, the more bold it becomes and if push comes to shove, I wouldn't be surprised that the balloon would go up before the collapse of the regime~ most of history's poorest countries usually ended their regimes in a ball of fire (Vietnam 1954-1975, Afghanistan 1979-1991, Ethiopia 1977-1991, Ziare 1964-1997, Iraq 1963-2003 and Cambodia 1975-1979) Though most of the cases I have mentioned happened in the less developed regions of the world, being that the government has been kept back but tightened sanctions, the country can be catagorized as "less-developed"

This might be alot to think about, but it is becoming reality now.

[Deconstructor]

North Korea has been blackmailing the world for many years. Ultimately, this has got to stop. The West is afraid that if a full scale embargo is imposed on NK it would feel like a cornered rat and attack. I don't see how this vermin is going to be eradicated without the loss of innocent lives, but eradicated it must be along with Iran and a few other dictatorships. It shall be the war to end all vermin.

[TheUrbanMyth]