So invade, right subby?

Philip Francis Queeg: What percentage of North Korea's GDP goes up in smoke every time they test a nuke?

Assumes facts not in evidence.

We should start a land war over there. What could go wrong?

DeaH: FullMetalPanda: Couldn't we just drop a nuke on them during one of their tests and just say they screwed up? They can say whatever they want but who will believe them besides the radioactive kimchi.

Other people have nukes. Why should it be us? Other than that, sure.

Except for the fact that everyone OUTSIDE of NK will know exactly who did it.

WeenerGord: [img207.imageshack.us image 600x496]
/in light grey print, the names are North Korea(pink with missile), China (maroon), Russia (grey), America (blue), Japan (green)

America girl has big tits. LOL!

Bit'O'Gristle: It happened in 2006, and again in 2009. With the UN leveling new sanctions, the world is about to find out whether North Korea's young new leader will detonate an atomic bomb, or step away from the path his father laid.

Don't make us write you a strongly worded letter!! DON'T MAKE US!! (shakes tiny ineffectual fist)

...says the guy not sharing his preferred course of action.

Sin_City_Superhero

We should start a land war over there. What could go wrong?

We wouldn't have to shoot one bullet, just throw food.

Just another Heartland Weirdass: studebaker hoch: What is it with these small countries we push around arming themselves with the one weapon that could make us step off?

I don't understand why they would do that, even at the expense of feeding their own people.

It makese no sense at all.

It helps if you believe they are 100% bad and we are 100% good.

It's hard not to see a government that has intentionally isolated itself from just about the entire world, at the expense, harm, and peril of its own people for the purposes of maintaining, basically, a blood-line monarchy based on an entirely fictional cult of personality, brainwashing, terrorizing, manipulating, and impoverishing generations of innocent people as anything other than 100% bad.

If the US (and most of the rest of the world, btw) push them around a little because they provoke their neighbors in an effort to maintain a preferred status for the military leadership, I don't really see much wrong in that. The north invaded the south, don't forget and the US only got involved on the korean peninsula because Japan lost WWII.

I'd say, in the case of NK, it is one case where the US hasn't really done much wrong, IMHO, and I'm pretty damned critical of the US interventionist history.

Bit'O'Gristle: theknuckler_33: Bit'O'Gristle: It happened in 2006, and again in 2009. With the UN leveling new sanctions, the world is about to find out whether North Korea's young new leader will detonate an atomic bomb, or step away from the path his father laid.

Don't make us write you a strongly worded letter!! DON'T MAKE US!! (shakes tiny ineffectual fist)

...says the guy not sharing his preferred course of action.

/Nothing we CAN do except the course we have followed all these years. Sanctions. Which do nothing. The north is just going to rattle its saber to show it's not scared of us imperialist dogs, and we go back to our usual dance. The only change that could happen is the north streaming south, and attacking the US posts on the DMZ. That, is not going to happen, so they will just pull out their sub standard wang and make like they are a superpower, and jerk off in the worlds face. I guess that makes them feel better.

Mea culpa. I guess I took your OP the wrong way.

Girion47: Really the best thing to do would be to just invade North Korea, go it solo, don't apologize to anyone and take out their military and administration, execute all of them. Then cede the land to South Korea and aid in rebuilding.

The civilians shouldn't starve for the sins of the leadership.

Whoever did this would be hated by the rest of the world I'm sure, but the North Korean people would certainly see an improvement in their life.

The problem is that this is EXACTLY what the NK people have been told for 60 years is the reason why they must be completely isolated. That basically the rest of the world wants to destroy them. These people are completely brainwashed and they will fight to the death, man, woman, and child. Yes, some would survive of course, but it would basically be a genocide. Can't do that.