[Little Ray]

The dictators of North Korea have nothing to worry about except their own people eating them.

The Chinese don’t want a unified democratic Korea on their border. South Korea doesn’t want to pick up the tab for bringing North Korea’s standard of living up to something approaching its own. They also don’t want to share a border with an expansionist PRC.

[allmost]

There is a lot of hesitation/fear in the surrounding countries concerning what to do with the state. I understand this. At the same time they are a perpetual threat and a general nuisance. Also, the technological cooperation with countries such as Iran cannot be underestimated in dealing with the regime as a whole IMO. Something needs to give. Preferably before the fruit of appeasement literally blows up in our faces.