Historians of the Holocaust will sometimes criticize the Allies for not "doing something" against the Nazi genocide. Their arguments tend to be emotional and are typically unfounded for two reasons:

1) The Allies did not understand the full nature of the Nazi genocide until fairly late in World War II.
2) The Allies had already declared war against the Nazis and were fully committed to defeating the Nazis as quickly as possible.

We now have evidence that North Korea is running its own version of the Holocaust. When future historians look back upon this, they will rightly criticize us for not responding to this obscenity. Unlike the Nazi Holocaust, with the North Korean Holocaust we will not have the satisfaction of offering excuses 1) and 2).

The United States can not unilaterally launch a war against North Korea. We are already over subscribed with our current struggles in Afghanistan and Iraq (both actions that I strongly support). At this stage of the game, the most ethical thing that we (the United States) could do is submit a proposal to the UN Security Council demanding that the North Korean government submit to United Nations control and hand over their leaders to the World Court for prosecution. Of course, France, Russia and China would vote a triple veto against such a Security Council proposal. However the United States would have made an attempt to rectify the situation in North Korea. When future historians damn us for having done nothing about North Korea, they would be required to qualify their condemnation by saying the United States did make a futile attempt to change things.

Gary