North Korean Regime Should Be Taken Out. As soon as possible

November 17, 2009

R.F.Wilson writes: So, how come every time North Korea tells the whole world to go to hell the world does not respond in kind? The regime in Pyonyang conducts nuclear tests and test fires missiles and no one does anything about it? The commies are building their nukes and the West watches them without interfering.

Every time the Nort Korean regime shows the world two fingers world leaders come up with pathetic words of condemnation, as if anyone in Pyongyang is listening or as if the North Korean people would ever know about it, being cut off from the rest of mankind: no proper television apart from the usual propaganda drivel, no radio broadcast from abroad and no Internet. Socialist peace and tranquillity reign there as usual. Nothing to worry about. The Dear Leader Kim Jong-il will protect his children from the nasty imperialists.

The UN denounces North Korea every time it steps out of line, convening pointless meetings of its Security Council and coming up with absolutely irrelevant documents that would call on the madmen in Pyonyang to abide by international law. As if Kim Jong-il and his cronies would lose any sleep over another UN resolution.

And don’t forget the divisions that usually not allow the permanent members of the UN Security Council to come up with some tough practical response to some latest outrage. Russia and China would always call for caution and restraint in dealing with the maniacs in Pyongyang. As if this sort of approach has ever worked in the past. Kim Jong-il just keeps on raising the stakes, whenever he feels like it.

He is doing it because he wants more concessions from the West, and because the situation in his country is getting so dire that he needs to ‘unite’ his people behind him to ‘stand up’ to American and South Korean ‘aggression’. How on earth he still gets away with this after so many years, is anyone’s guess. The people of North Korea probably receive a dose of some hallucinating drug in the bowl of their soup every day.

China always points out that it would like to prevent any upheaval happening in North Korea for fear of creating a refuge problem on its border. But the real reasons for this pussyfooting by Beijing lie elsewhere. The Chinese leadership uderstands that if Kim Jong-il is ousted by his people in a popular revolt the attraction of such a scenario might become just too strong for the people of China. Let’s not forget that the Chinese communist regime is not exactly popular with its people and is only surviving because of a ruthless put down of any forms of opposition.

China is an authoritarian state that is run by a small clique that depends on the loyalty of security forces and the army. If that loyalty crumbles the Chinese regime may be smitten away in a matter of weeks, with the possibility of the country disintegrating into smaller entities. Such a scenario is not as bad as many people think but for the current regime it is the worst possible outcome.

China has been a ticking bomb for several years now, with civil unrest growing with the current recession. That is why Beijing is so keen to let Kim Jong-il off the hook and keep the same status quo intact. There will be talk of strengthening international sanctions when the next nuclear test is conducted but everyone will know perfectly well that in case of North Korea these measures will not work. The North Korean people will suffer but the standing of ruling regime would remain intact.

The only way out of the situation is to send in the crack commandos take Kim Jong-il and his closest allies out. (The same thing should have been done in Iraq.) And then help the people of North Korea to install a temporary regime that would oversee the unification of the two Koreas.

But guess what? This would be just too simple for the UN and the big powers. In their book it does not work like that. A lot of meaningless statements will be made the next time North Korea explodes a nuclear devise or tests a missile and then things will get back to the way they were, until the next crisis. Old politics in the brave new world, I call it.

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