There is perhaps no better example out there of such. Bush is making one last ditch effort to make some kind of progress on the North Korea conundrum before leaving office – mainly what to do about the North’s nuclear program. But let’s face it, not much will come of it. Here you have a country, total population perhaps hovering around the 23 million mark with a combined active and reserve military force of about nine million. And it would take their missiles just 12 minutes to reach downtown Seoul. The Seoul National Capital Area is the second largest metropolitan area in the world with a population of almost 25 million.
Best of luck with that chit chat, Obama.
(PS … and you wonder why I live in the deep south of the country next to an airport…)
PPS Here’s a documentary on North Korea. It’s a few years old but I highly recommend you watch it.
PPPS But are we, in a necessary yet still tragic cross-cultural irony, witnessing death by a 1000 cuts?
But what other ’solution’ is there?
What would China do?
The Tizona Group 