Changing North Korea
By exposing them to the truth about their impoverishment and about the prosperity of their South Korean cousins, the United States can encourage North Koreans to change the regime in Pyongyang.
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Changing North Korea
Now that all kinds of hawkish and dovish methods have been used to bring North Korea out of its self-imposed isolation, it behooves the United States to employ the policies that put an end to the Cold War in the rest of the world. Giving it a try would not hurt anybody, but sitting on our hands will definitely not offer any more solution than do any half-baked policies.