North Korea’s Successful Missile Test Shows Program’s Progress, Analysts Say

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New York Times

Here we go.

[Green Line]

It was bound to happen eventually.

I say we bomb the **** out of North Korea.  No nation building this time.

[Zioneer]

It was bound to happen eventually.

I say we bomb the **** out of North Korea.  No nation building this time.

If we have to overthrow the Kims, then I prefer going for the Marshall Plan approach once we've liberated (no sarcastic "quote" lines, we actually would be liberating it) North Korea. After all, the North Koreans will either have to stay in North Korea, or flee en masse to South Korea or China. But if we just leave North Korea itself as is, it'lll be 100 times worse than the economic imbalance between East and West Germany.

[Green Line]

It was bound to happen eventually.

I say we bomb the **** out of North Korea.  No nation building this time.

If we have to overthrow the Kims, then I prefer going for the Marshall Plan approach once we've liberated (no sarcastic "quote" lines, we actually would be liberating it) North Korea. After all, the North Koreans will either have to stay in North Korea, or flee en masse to South Korea or China. But if we just leave North Korea itself as is, it'lll be 100 times worse than the economic imbalance between East and West Germany.

Let China deal with the consequences.  They've been propping up this human rights disaster since the 50's.  They can handle the refugees.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Typical North Korean trolling.

More at 10.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

It was bound to happen eventually.

I say we bomb the **** out of North Korea.  No nation building this time.

If we have to overthrow the Kims, then I prefer going for the Marshall Plan approach once we've liberated (no sarcastic "quote" lines, we actually would be liberating it) North Korea. After all, the North Koreans will either have to stay in North Korea, or flee en masse to South Korea or China. But if we just leave North Korea itself as is, it'lll be 100 times worse than the economic imbalance between East and West Germany.

Let China deal with the consequences.  They've been propping up this human rights disaster since the 50's.  They can handle the refugees.

This would potentially cause a global depression if the Chinese were unable to cope.

[Beet]

Goodness gracious, the potential End of the World^TM if the Kim regime falls is not the problem, the fact that the Kim regime hasn't fallen is the problem.

[Cory]

Goodness gracious, the potential End of the World^TM if the Kim regime falls is not the problem, the fact that the Kim regime hasn't fallen is the problem.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Goodness gracious, the potential End of the World^TM if the Kim regime falls is not the problem, the fact that the Kim regime hasn't fallen is the problem.

No, it really isn't.

The Kim regime falling would be a disaster that would make surrounding nations and the world wish fondly for a nice little nuclear exchange instead.

Millions upon millions of refugees, streaming across the Chinese border, the DMZ, and over the sea on anything that might float. A heavily armed military suddenly desperate and without leadership. Nuclear, chemical, and probably bio-weapons going missing in the chaos. It would be a massive disaster, that would make everything the US has done in the Mid-East since the Gulf War look like a walk in the park by comparison.

[dead0man]

No it wouldn't.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

Goodness gracious, the potential End of the World^TM if the Kim regime falls is not the problem, the fact that the Kim regime hasn't fallen is the problem.

No, it really isn't.

The Kim regime falling would be a disaster that would make surrounding nations and the world wish fondly for a nice little nuclear exchange instead.

Millions upon millions of refugees, streaming across the Chinese border, the DMZ, and over the sea on anything that might float. A heavily armed military suddenly desperate and without leadership. Nuclear, chemical, and probably bio-weapons going missing in the chaos. It would be a massive disaster, that would make everything the US has done in the Mid-East since the Gulf War look like a walk in the park by comparison.

All very true, but it's also the only plausible scenario that would give North Koreans the slightest chance at joining the rest of the world and not being subject to the brutal conditions of that regime.  The refugees would be a problem; the inevitable military quagmires would be worse.  And the United States would of course be embroiled in another nation-building scenario.

But since there is about as much a chance of the Kim regime being overthrown as there is North Korea voluntarily dismantling its nuclear program (which is to say none at all... unless there's a coup brewing that we don't know about), the point is essentially moot.