Korea: What if we just left?

[Jester]

... the US (and France, and Russia, and all the usual players) are unloading copious arms onto the world market. Even if they aren't sold directly to NK, they get sold to nations, who sell their newly obsolete equipment, who sell to a middleman, who funnels it through the Cayman Islands, who sells them to good old Mr. Kim Jong Il.

So, just as likely, he'd use the money to revamp and modernize as rebuild and prosper. And the US would get stuck with either the bill, or with a whole lot of outdated military hardware it doesn't need.

"...the benefit of the average Cho."

Ooh, that was good. I'm keeping that one.

Jester