Too bad right-wing media live there with them, drawing a depressing number of citizens after themselves, like so many children following the Pied Piper. (IMHO).

“It would be diplomatic ignorance to believe that China would join with us, it would be regional and historical ignorance to believe that Japan should join us, and it would be strategic and political ignorance to think that the South Koreans would be up for this. They aren’t.

If we were to come to the point of last resort, after all financial and political options had failed and where only military options remained, it would make far more sense to flood North Korea with Tokarevs, RPG’s, and Chinese AK’s than to attack North Korea directly. I’m not opposed to that idea in principle. Certainly it’s an alternative that China must fear so much that it would rather cooperate with us. But it would take years to work, and it could only succeed if a potential resistance organization had first infiltrated North Korea and established a political underground, supply system, and intelligence network. The direct military option, however, should be reserved only for imminent anticipatory self defense or to stop a proliferation incident. “