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No doubt Iraq was a failure to attack - but I'm not sure if DKPR would have been any more of a success - as the country is a hellhole - always on the brink of breaking to pieces - but kept under control by a regime who is far worse than everything else who have been around the last 70 years.. Both Stalin and Mao would have been in envy about how the leadership of DKPR is treated by their own people - and also in envy about the total control the leadership have when it comes to their own subjects.... It is a despotic regime, who I Doubt have any similarly regimes of today
The country also have a iron grip about its military and civilian society - mostly because the country is closed off from the rest of the world - and all dissent, small or large is subject to harsh punishments - infringements to its rule - is brutality and prison for life in many cases - and even though some of the camps is being closed down - the camps who is active, is larger than ever before - and the treatments of the prisoner worse than ever... In many ways, it is an army, with a country to rule - most of its meager reserves of foreign currency is for the most part used to prop up a army who is a danger to the nabours - specially ROK, who they still are on war footing with - theoretical a war can break out anytime soon, if the leadership in DKPR decide so..
And, it is no doubt that DKPRs leadership is brutal - the current Kim Jung Un, killed of his uncle, (and possible also aunt) and most of the family and friends to protect his own leadership in the party - and the country - that itself is rather telling about how the new leader want to rule the country - by iron fist not seen in the Western world for centuries...
The regime is horrible - and I have some doubt if US want to go into DKPR anytime soon - mostly because it will take at least 50 years to rebuild the country - and to give the people in DKPR the tools to make their own future possible.. After all - the US still have armed forces in Germany and Japan - more than 60 year after WW2 - even though at least Germany seen to be a democratic country - who have no plans to attack her nabours anytime soon... Japan on the other hand, have the ability to affront the rest of her nabours - that be Korea or China (PRC) over wartime past... And I would not rule anything out in that part of the world for the next couple of years - even though I believe that cooler heads will prevail also here
DKPR is indeed a festering mess of human misery - but I doubt anyone know how to handle the country - at least not after the country got nuclear weapons - who they have threatened to use against South Korea - and the US, even though they might not have the means to fire a rocket to attack South Korea or US anytime soon - it is still a present danger no american president should look away from - Oh, they did - when busied with Iraq - DKPR was able to make nuclear weapons - and make sure that no one was to interfere - US was busy digging itself into the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan - a ground I fear it will take a generation to dig it out of - to much face saving "politic" into it all..
And then we have PRC, who also have its own politic when it comes to DKPR - today it is a buffer zone between PRC and South Korea - who have military forces also from US - PRC do have a fear of getting US military forces on its border - and will keep their hand over DKPR, as a matter of geopolitical interest - In many cases is PRC the key to solve how to handle DKPR - the problem is that the US ideals, and the PRC ideals are not the same.... Not by far. If DKPR was to ever attack the South Korea (something that is not impossible all the time South and North still is technically is at war with each other after 60 years ) And the South with US and other allied forces was to make waste to the DKPR military forces (more than possible, in the end, even with a 1.4 million strong army, the army is not exactly modern by any standard - and I think the US and South Korea, do have a few plans up their sleeve if a war was to be made) Some fear - the PRC army will go into DKPR - to build a buffer zone between them self and the US forces - and use the rest of the North Korean army to make up the bulk of the military forces at the buffer-zone...
DKPR is the last remnants of the cold war - but it is a remnants of the Cold war, who still is there, and I doubt it will solve itself out anytime soon...
Diclotican
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