“We have no intention of taking military action against North Korea unless they do something that requires it”
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates
This statement may confuse and possibly offend staunch DPRK opposers, because unpredictable North Korea wielding nuclear weapons and defying the international community by performing nuclear tests would be seen by some as more than enough reason
Take Iraq for example; Iraq had no nuclear weapons, hadn’t tested one, and some would argue wasn’t as brutal on it’s population as the regime in North Korea, but the US saw fit to oust Saddam by military force. Oh – forgot that was an oil war and personal vengence from the Bush’s (with love from Bush Snr.)
What does North Korea have to offer from the US liberating it’s population?
Besides, it bolsters US military presence in the Far East, which balances the region (militarily) with China. There’s no benefit for the US to liberate North Korea as it did Iraq even though North Korea wields Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological weapons, threatens the world, tests missiles that often coincide with high tension in the region, brutality to its populace and the apparent ‘re-education’ and labour camps that could be compared to Hitler’s concentration camps…
So no. No reason.
