Strike on North Korea

[ikalugin]

I think in this context we forget the Cuban missile crisis and his various experiments (ie agricultural ones).

Just because he wasnt as demonised as Stalin was doesnt make him a nice person (within the "western" liberal moral system ofc).

The sort of person that we in the west might want to run North Korea would probably be overthrown by Koreans fairly quickly or killed.
Plus there's the chaos that would be caused by the removal of the top figures of North Korea, think of Iraq but this time the terrorists have ICBMs.
We really should learn from our past mistakes before we make new ones.

With that I agree, I believe that the best leaders come through gradual change in the system.

I think it is worth mentioning not only the obvious example in case of the OIF - Saddam US did not prosecute him for gasing Kurds by the way), but also the old Baathist generals, who then formed ISIS core.