* <> It's hard to know what to do about a country like North Korea. If we hold that military intervention should always be a last resort, what action can actually effect change in the regime? Economic sanctions? The country is already underfed, and the small amount of foreign money that comes in is immediately gobbled-up by the state anyway. So, imposing economic sanctions on a country like North Korea only serves to starve the civilians. Is that the idea? We want to impoverish and starve the population so that they'll revolt against their government and abolish it? That may have worked in the days of pitchfork and torch revolutions, but when the state you've got to rebel against has automatic rifles, bombs, tanks, and jets ... -- Excerpted from: PUBLIC NOTES (H) http://alph.laemeur.com/txt/PUBNOTES-H ©2017 Adam C. Moore (LÆMEUR)