What should the U.S. do about North Korea?

Answer 1

Nothing. Until they declare war or attack an ally. Then, it's on like Donkey Kong.

Answer 2

The USA should withdraw its troops from South Korea and the DMZ, and tell the South Koreans and Japanese to defend themselves for a change.

Really, the North has an interest in peace. They are starving and need food, currency, and fuel from the rest of the world. Furthermore, their Stalinist system is inherently unstable because it cannot properly set prices and allocate goods and services in any kind of efficient way.

They only bluster to gain more concessions from the West like a malnourished and neglected street urchin.

As for the South, they want to unite with the North someday. They do not want a big war to start, because that means Seoul is going to get shelled, leveled to the ground, and probably overrun in the earliest days of a war. (Ultimately though the North would lose though.) Their "sunshine" policy should work fine toward this end, which would ultimately culminate in a bloodless coup ala the old Soviet Union.

But this has nothing to to with the USA. In other words, the best the USA could do is nothing, and the sooner the better.

Answer 3

The US could not win a war against North Korea, at least not at a cost the American people are willing to put up with. The only way to effectively deal with a leader like this is to take a very hard line from the start. You have to make it clear that perhaps he can bully his own people, but he cannot bully the world. North Korean leaders are not stupid enough to start launching nukes at their neighbours.

Answer 4

Total isolation from the rest of the world, create incentives to neighboring countries to accept immigrants from North Korea.

Answer 5

You can't just Nuke N. Korea... it's connected to S. Korea, and radiation and fallout doesn't know how to read a map and doesn't know how not to go into S. Korea (and they are our allies and friends). I say take out the crazy dude leader - covert ops, get insider to get him, whatever... they can replace with someone who's not so crazy in there.

Answer 6

We should say to Hell with Iraq, it's not really a threat to American security and interests anyways. We should mass our Army on the border of N. Korea and our Navy all around the coast and give N. Korea one last ultimatum, hand over Kim Jong Il or be invaded, bombed, destroyed, and everything else. When Kim Jong Il inevitably refuses to hand himself over, we invade, bomb, destroy, and everything else.

Answer 7

U.S. shouldn't do anything, but North Korea need to start making themself a better and friendlyer nations.

Answer 8

Nothing because there is a girl who uses Korean as her nationality who levitated and freed Korea from war

Answer 9

US should think back what they did that makes North Korea today, the Afghanistan today, Iraq Today. Palestinians today. find out why did all of them doing it. Research. . . Think . . .

Answer 10

Weapon Testing is needed when you need to test your ability to defend yourself.

If you are at home, alone and at risk, you could probably test a gun or a knife to see if you could avoid getting kill.

U.S continues to be a big producer of weapons and the only country outside its own running a war.

U.S needs to avoid being a threat to other countries, which should reduce their concern on defend themselves