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In reply to the discussion: Do you favor or oppose a pre-emptive military strike on North Korea [View all]haele
(12,692 posts)If it were an internal removal, North Korea would just become a dysfunctional state and collapse internally from the infighting and wild accusations. I suspect that most of the population will apply for reunification with South Korea once the party members top levels in government, military, and science sort themselves out and no actual evidence is found that any Outsider had anything to do with it.
If another Country was involved with the removal of the Kim Dynasty, that would give North Korea a reason to focus on that agency as the cause of any subsequent dysfunction, and the global "we" would be worse off. Remember, these people have lived at least four generations as sacrificing subjects to a "God King" that brooks no political dissent; what little dissent is in the country is viewed as criminal behavior by most people there - and punishment, including execution, is acceptable to most of the citizens there.
The brainwashing is strong, and no matter how the Kim Dynasty falls, it will take a decade or more for the majority of North Koreans that were not already inclined to leave to accept the larger outside world and be comfortable taking responsibility for their own future rather than living under an autocrat that tells them how to live.
Heck, much of our own population has a problem living in the outside world and prefer to live under local autocrats who use "God's observable Favor" as an excuse to tell them the right way to act and think - and to that everyone needs to keep to their place in local society if they don't want to be cast out and end up in Hell.
Haele