IIRC it is against American law to assassinate a foreign head of state.
If North Korea disintegrates, both China and South Korea be ready to handle millions of cannibal zombies. China will just mow down, but the democratic South Korea might be flooded with their own refugee problem... This time, an atheist wave of starving masses. Equally vindictive and resentful of their opponents as ISIS refugees are.
I don’t believe the US has ever recognized NK as a legitimate state. We have no diplomatic relations with them. If they aren’t a state, how can their dictator be a head of one? Trump could certainly make that argument.
Not if you're Hillary Clinton.
That is what I remember too. I think Gerald Ford had a hand in legislation outlawing the assisination of a foreign head of state.
IIRC it is against American law to assassinate a foreign head of state.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Unless there is a Presidential finding that it needs to be done and executive order 12333 ( Reagan) is revoked.(That executive order does not restrict military options.)
Good Read on the subject:
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bciclr/26_1/01_TXT.htm
It is not illegal; Reagan signed an executive order against it, but it has never been codified into law:
https://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/lawreviews/journals/bciclr/26_1/01_FMS.htm
He would be dead, thats it.