Diplomacy has tried and failed to end the Korean Peninsula crisis since the 1950s. North Korea has pushed nuclear weapons development as far as it could afford to under various circumstances, and slowed its pace a little now and then, yet i could always continue researching and constructing weapons infrastructure in part even if not actually enriching uranium. Now it has nuclear weapons and is close to having ICBMs. It is the world's best rogue communist authoritarian state and closet communists probably hope it continues to attacks the core of capitalism and perhaps even nukes DC eventually or a major U.S. city or two. That would collapse the U.S. economy instantly and rewrite world economic and political balances.
Can the U.S. and the rest of the world live with a nuclear North Korea? Of course, until it actually uses nukes on San Francisco and Seattle, D.C. and Chicago the what me worry approach willwork fine. It is worth remembering that nations and political theorists have made sacrifices in times past in order to advance a particular agenda.North Korea could be the communist's second to last card to play to restore communism to the glory it had before the end of the Soviet Union when hundreds of millions of people in Russia and China lived contentedly under elite dictators and politboro non-representative congresses.
Mutually assured destruction deterrence policies don't work if one party believes its sacrifice is worthwhile if it can advance a broader political cause. Neither would anisotropic one-sided assured destruction policy be effective in the same context if North Korean Dictator Kim Un believes that collapsing the U.S. and world economy is worth the price (since it will bring planetary authoritarianism and corporate-communism to universal power.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41083375 British still think diplomacy is a good idea
Can the U.S. and the rest of the world live with a nuclear North Korea? Of course, until it actually uses nukes on San Francisco and Seattle, D.C. and Chicago the what me worry approach willwork fine. It is worth remembering that nations and political theorists have made sacrifices in times past in order to advance a particular agenda.North Korea could be the communist's second to last card to play to restore communism to the glory it had before the end of the Soviet Union when hundreds of millions of people in Russia and China lived contentedly under elite dictators and politboro non-representative congresses.
Mutually assured destruction deterrence policies don't work if one party believes its sacrifice is worthwhile if it can advance a broader political cause. Neither would anisotropic one-sided assured destruction policy be effective in the same context if North Korean Dictator Kim Un believes that collapsing the U.S. and world economy is worth the price (since it will bring planetary authoritarianism and corporate-communism to universal power.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41083375 British still think diplomacy is a good idea
