I don't agree with you, Bowser. I think the NK regime is a bunch of brutal thugs that have managed to keep their people so isolated that they have no idea what is going on in the outside world. In spite of that, they are fleeing into China as refugees in droves.

In the past, when we've sent them food aid they've methodically repackaged it at great expense and effort so the recipients would have no idea it came from the West.

Any aid of any kind will only be used to perpetuate the regime. This is not a poor country. They have one of the largest and best equipped and trained armed forces in the world, and they will use it before the regime falls, so a deterrent by their neighbors is essential. They are irredeemably dangerous and evil, a comment I make about few of our so-called enemies. But in this case, they are the worst of the lot.

This government has nothing going for it, all civil culture and institutions there have been methodically exterminated. Although there is no need (yet) for any pre-emptive or retaliatory war, nothing must be done to allow this regime to survive even a moment longer.