Rummel on Slave Korea: Take out Kim.

Finally, someone is talking sense about North Korea and, not surprisingly, it is Professor Rummel of Democratic Peace. For the cost of a few guided munitions, we can decapitate the Slave Korean regime. Then, in five hundred years, the North will catch up to Free Korea.

On Kim's Nuclear Test
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The nuclear test claimed by North Korea, which if true (which as of this writing has yet to be confirmed) has a profound meaning for American defense and foreign policy. Given that North Korea has or will eventually have the missile capability to reach American territory, at least Alaska or Hawaii, and will also have a working nuclear warhead for these missiles, then this will give Kim Il Jung, the bloody absolute dictator of North Korea, a blank check to commit what aggression he pleases, or provide terrorists with what missiles and nuclear devices for which they will pay. We could not defend South Korea against his full-scale invasion, or sanction him for aiding terrorists, since all he needs to do is threaten to nuke Honolulu, Anchorage, or maybe even San Francisco or Los Angeles. We would have to take him seriously, and trying to destroy his missiles before he launches them is too chancy to so risk American cities and lives.

So, if we know, without doubt, or even have a reasonable suspicion that he has, working nukes, then he has an effective deterrent against American action.

Can we take out Kim's nuclear and missile capability before he is able to create working warheads? No, since thanks to previous American presidents, he has developed an effective deterrent against just such as attack, which are his hidden and protected artillery and short-range missile capability to destroy Seoul, the capitol of South Korea, and to turn our surgical strikes into another full-scale Korean war.

Among all the suggestions and lamentations about this awful political dilemma, I have not read or heard anyone suggest what I have (here, and here), which is to assassinate Kim. I'm sure there are a thousand and one ways of doing this without implicating any country, and if any ruling thug deserves it, Kim does. There are millions of souls of his victims that I'm sure would cheer. However, in our reluctance to use torture even to save American lives, unwillingness to prosecute treason, and our mothering of terrorists we capture and imprison, I doubt that we have the [insert your own word] to do what is necessary.

Sigh.