NK hit rock bottom years ago and then dropped through the bottom. NK's population is declining due to mass starvation. Its army is absolutely starving to death already. Want evidence? Here it is:

Source: http://williamamos.wordpress.com/2009/01/18/north-korea-threatens-invasion-of-south-korea/

See the army of living skeletons. Take a close look. These guys are all emaciated. The skin is tight on their faces. They look like escapees from Auschwitz. A starving army could not fight its way out of a paper bag.

Now, look at the country from satellite at night.

Source: http://mobtalk.net/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=7358&start=30&sid=30081006a0957c52a7ec7c3180ebfe55

I might say, "Will the last person to leave (or die) please turn out the lights?" but there are no lights to turn out anyhow.

Of course, there are those few leftists who still think NK is a great place to live. I wonder why NONE of them ever move there?

The crisis is over. NK is already dying, and is gradually declining into non-existence. It is a rotting corpse of a country. It has no food, no electricity, no industry, nothing. It can make a couple of rockets using imported technology, but cannot equip a modern military. Its skeleton army would not survive a week, assuming that it would actually fight, which is doubtful. If NK is insane enough to attack SK, it will find out very quickly why a 1950 era army has no chance against today's weapons. Surely several thousand SK soldiers and civilians will be killed, but NK will fold like a house of cards. NK has a lot of old artillery pieces that will be knocked out in a few days. Its 1950 era tanks will fare no better against modern USA-supplied weapons than Saddam's 1980 era tanks did.

David F Mayer