Would America Really Invade North Korea?

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Would America Really Invade North Korea?
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No way—and here's why.
Harry J. Kazianis [2]

Would the Trump administration actually consider invading North Korea?

Such an idea at least seems possible. According to a report [3] in the Wall Street Journal, “an internal White House review of strategy on North Korea includes the possibility of military force or regime change to blunt the country’s nuclear-weapons threat, people familiar with the process said.”

To be clear, there is lots of ways to initiate regime change in a nation-state, but when it comes to North Korea, military operations—meaning an invasion—seems like the only real option. Pyongyang isn’t exactly tied to the global economy, so sanctions seem unlikely to bring Kim Jong-un to his knees. Nor is various types of intensified societal pressures like mass propaganda organized to take the regime down. Soldiers, tanks and bombs, at least at this point, seem to be the only way to do it.

 
Source URL (retrieved on March 7, 2017): http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-skeptics/would-america-really-invade-north-korea-19654

[DB]

NK is China's proxy. China enjoys NK being a thorn in our side tying up substantial US resources. NK will change when China wants it to change and not likely before. Therefore the key to NK is China. China should pay a price for all the suffering it causes there.

[Oceander]

NK is China's proxy. China enjoys NK being a thorn in our side tying up substantial US resources. NK will change when China wants it to change and not likely before. Therefore the key to NK is China. China should pay a price for all the suffering it causes there.

It is a proxy for China, so a simple invasion would be a fools errand.  As for China, they're big enough that making them feel the pain would be very hard.