Best option? North Korea suddenly has a massive bloodless civil war and Kim is removed from power and replaced by the Dalai Lama and a resurected Gandhi. They develop a clean energy source that's only byproduect is a calorie free form of chocolate.
In reality, South Korea and Japan are in danger. We all know South Korea is massively outgunned, therefore it falls to Japan. Japan, despite being outnumbered, is not outgunned. Japan has the right to defend itself. If Japan asks for help from the UN, then I really hope the UN is able to snap into action (unlike what they normally do). The US does have a great deal of troops posted for just such a rainy nuclear day in the South Pacific (Bali Ha'i!!!). I'm hoping that multilateral peace talks will be succesful, but I know that the US, Japan, Australia(?) and South Korea combined could wipe North Korea from history very quickly...if we simply bomb them from above. The problem with that is of course that only 1 in like 48 North Koreans are military and if we bomb indiscrimantly, like was done in Iraq, we end up with massive civilian casualties.
What ever happened to spies? Why isn't there a James Bond in NK finding out where the nukes are?
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