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Ah yes, acceptable loss. It creates an imbalance in willingness to go to war. In Somalia, we pulled out after losing 18 troops. Vietnam, 58,000. In the west, we are a bit squeamish when it comes to acceptable loss. It becomes problematic when we are up against regimes that do not care about their own population or have a higher threshold for acceptable loss. EX: China lost a million men in the Korean War and didn't bat an eye.
In my opinion, Kim Jong Il probably has a high threshold for acceptable loss which make a war with him or any conflict likely to be very bloody.
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