That depends very much on how much you value the live of people who live in Seoul.
Attacking North Korea means that a lot of people in North and South Korea will die. Then you will still be left with North Koreans running guerrilla warfare on the new government that you put there with tries to rebuild the whole country after the mess.
The straightforward way if you want to prevent famine is to ship them the food they need and increase economic trade as much as possible.
That depends very much on how much you value the live of people who live in Seoul.
See the UDT reasons for not giving in to blackmail.
Then you will still be left with North Koreans running guerrilla warfare on the new government that you put there with tries to rebuild the whole country after the mess.
I doubt this would happen. This didn’t happen with Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. If you look at the collapse of communist states, the only places this happened were places with preexisting ethnic tension kept in check by the strong central government.
The way the US got Japan to stop fighting was to drop atomic bombs to coerce the Japanese leadership to concede a defeat and the Japanese leadership had a strong enough authority to get most Japanese troops to stop fighting.
Navi Germany had an ideology that was very much about respecting power. The whole authority of the Nazi government was based on it being perceived as strong. After both World Wars Germany tried to copy US culture to copy the traits of the winner.
The communist states didn’t fall to invading armies in a bloody war that tried to govern those states afterwards.
See the UDT reasons for not giving in to blackmail.
The discussion about blackmail is usually not about starting Wars with no calculation about the cost of those wars.
That depends very much on how much you value the live of people who live in Seoul.
Attacking North Korea means that a lot of people in North and South Korea will die. Then you will still be left with North Koreans running guerrilla warfare on the new government that you put there with tries to rebuild the whole country after the mess.
The straightforward way if you want to prevent famine is to ship them the food they need and increase economic trade as much as possible.
See the UDT reasons for not giving in to blackmail.
I doubt this would happen. This didn’t happen with Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. If you look at the collapse of communist states, the only places this happened were places with preexisting ethnic tension kept in check by the strong central government.
The way the US got Japan to stop fighting was to drop atomic bombs to coerce the Japanese leadership to concede a defeat and the Japanese leadership had a strong enough authority to get most Japanese troops to stop fighting.
Navi Germany had an ideology that was very much about respecting power. The whole authority of the Nazi government was based on it being perceived as strong. After both World Wars Germany tried to copy US culture to copy the traits of the winner.
The communist states didn’t fall to invading armies in a bloody war that tried to govern those states afterwards.
The discussion about blackmail is usually not about starting Wars with no calculation about the cost of those wars.
Nevertheless, the ones with preexisting ethnic tensions, i.e., Yugoslavia and parts of Russia, degenerated into ethnic warfare.