If I had the perfect solution, I'd be telling someone else. IMO there is no plausible solution short of a military team taking out their program with surgical strikes. At least we have some idea where it is, which is more than we have for Iraq.
A total blockade would result in the army and the leadership eating and getting oil while the rest of the population dies horribly.
At some point North Korea, if it has sufficient time to arm itself, will boil over South Korea with atomic weapons. If retaliation kills 95 percent of the North Koreans, but leaves the leadership intact in shelters, it will be perceived by the North as a victory.
If anything has been proved by actual demonstration in this century, it's that a communist will hold on to power if it means doing it among fields full of the skulls of his citizens.
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