IIRC it is against American law to assassinate a foreign head of state.
“We knock off that ONE GUY and it’s OVER..!”
Sounds REALLY tempting, I have to admit.
“They’re all SUFFERING, they really LOATHE their life there, they’d shower us with rose petals, they’d be overjoyed..!”
What a sucker’s play. Sure, there are those that saw SK dramas on smuggled DVD’s, they’ve heard the rumors.
PLENTY of them still go in for the hype, in Saddam’s words we’d be “welcomed by bullets and SHOES”.
The other wolves would simply jump in and take his place at the top.
The future really IS unification but anyone who thinks it would be a Cake Walk is living in La La Land.
LOTS of people would have to be vaporized.
Well, I for one would host a celebratory barbecue, and be thankful that millions of brainwashed and oppressed North Koreans might someday walk in the light of freedom...
Unfortunately, that's not going to happen.
If he were assassinated, another member of the junta would replace him and the regime would grind on.
A lot of North Koreans would be happy?
Besides, that's what China is for...
Maybe, but they would be a lot less eager to get in a game of chicken with Trump. Having your enemies fear you is a good thing.
We don’t want to be a part of that because then it would be easier for foreign nut-jobs to think they can do it to our leaders or any other random leaders around the world.
Much more global instability would follow. Long-term ill effects would outweigh any short-term benefits.
I think he should get a Scalia/Breitbart style heart attack... or perhaps his Mercedes should inexplicably accelerate to 120 MPH and hit a tree.
I heard a discussion on the radio yesterday about why someone in the inner circle doesn’t take Kim out. They concluded that, since the lives and privileges of people that close to the top depend on Kim or at least the continuation of the regime without Kim, there is no one who would do that.
Here’s one problem I haven’t seen discussed.
You’re dealing with a hereditary line of succession in a communist totalitarian state. Who would be the heir apparent after Kim Jong Un? It seems to me that there is no clear replacement that would continue that type of succession.
That creates an entirely unpredictable chain of events in leadership. Perhaps good, perhaps bad. However there is no real way to know.
I doubt even the Chinese have a pipeline into the would be cadre of generals or senior staff to know who could or would pick up the pieces in such an event. The regime is so paranoid at this point that I suspect they would treat communication with the Chinese with equal hostility as they would with ROK or US agents.
We go assassinate someone else leader. Then what right do we have to object to some other nation assassinating ours?
I don’t think this is the road we should go down.
Even with Hussein, we captured the guy. We turned him over to the new government. They determined what to do with him.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/05/world/middleeast/05cnd-saddam.html
Uh, he would be dead?
What if the Norks nuke Pearl Harbor or Tokyo?
Believe me, anyone but Kim Jong un in power is far better to deal with
This article articulates what’s called “wishful thinking” that some day Kim Jong Un would give up the bomb somehow.
The risk is that one day America has to deal with Kim Jong un with advanced nuclear weapon and delivery system
That may be kind of stalemate to create peace... if America let Kim Jong un take over the South Korea
Then he completes the holy triad of war. Precise (Syria), Powerful (MOAB), and Decapitation of the enemy leadership) NK.
I wonder how it would sound in the media? NK leader dies in his sleep? Will he catch a disease that kills in 3-6 months?
North Korea remains in a state of war with the south, and the US through membership in the UN. No permanent treaty exists. Kim Jong Un is the head of the armed forces of NK so is therefore fair game. Giving the South Koreans a missile and coordinates would alleviate any legal handwringing.
Mr. B, your video is required svp.
China on the other hand has the intel and operation apparatus needed. China most likely already has a successor chosen.