Reply #7: Good point [View All]

[FatbackSlim]

I had forgotten the Cuban Missile Crisis...and yes, it was well before my time.

Even so, implicit 'or else' wasn't so bad, given that it was also generally understood among the nuclear powers that MAD was a kind of framework for stability. With North Korea, there's no such understanding, and I'm not at all confident there *can* be such an understanding; they are, to put it mildly, nuts.

I also don't believe that propping up and protecting North Korea serves any good purpose; all that will do is extend the misery and death of its people for years into the future.