Who could Kristol's covert action put into power that isn't as bad as what's already there?
I wonder why no progress has ever been made in a resistance movement within No. Korea, the same for Iran. Isn’t this what CIA is for?
Fear. No leader to rally around. Sixty years of indoctrination. All of the above.
His reaction to that question was, they couldn't be any worse!! Oh, Please.
No. Korea, as the article says, is the ultimate rogue state. NO ONE LIKES THEM. They have no friends. This makes them even more dangerous.
The Chinese leadership likely has this all set. Just a matter of negotiating with US, JApan, s.Korea, etc. More than likely a Chinese surrogate leadership will still be better than what they have now. Those people are brainless. We've all seen the mindset of the N.Korean populace. There is no way they can goveren themselves apart from some sort of dictatorship model to worship. So initially that is what will have to be. They've been stuck in time for so long they have no clue what the rest of the world is doing...or it's advances, for the past 50 yrs.. Interesting is when you view the videos on you tube and look at the furniture, hairstyles, manner of clothing, shoes vehicles, and the buildings interiors....you see they are stuck in the fifties and sixties. There best hotels would rate lower than our lower end hotels.
It’d be pretty easy for commandos (South Korean) to head into China, then cross the Yalu like all the defectors (only in reverse). Once in North Korea, plant explosives on the few rail lines into/out of China.
You blow them up and you eliminate most trade into North Korea. Then, for good measure, South Korean subs could then sink all the North Korean merchant vessels (there aren’t that many) outside of their communication range.
Finally, and probably the most at risk of getting caught, would be to blow the North Koreans dams, flooding their agriculture.
After that, you see a county about to undergo the worst famine possible (and this from a country used to starving)... with no ability to import anything. And while they may suspect that South Korea did it, there’d be no proof.
And if we look back, the Norks were the most cooperative during their last great famine in the mid-90’s.