Atttack North Korea?

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

The point still stands that the USA never had the means to rehabilitate North Korea after the war. I have no doubt that we would have, if we could have.

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All that may have been necessary was to have good relations, and later full trade, with NK. The US does not have to paternalistically "rehabilitate" everyone.

The success of the US is that it can woo nations with its capitalism, wealth, and pop culture. It has done this with numerous former enemies, but not NK and, and to a large degree, Cuba.

Had it taken this course, as it has so many other times, things would be quite different and NK would be a better place—probably not great, but better. I am positive the government would be more benign.

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Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube

That's asking for something that would have been impossible. South Korea and North Korea--even without the influencing hand of their Superpower supporters--both wanted a swift re-unification of the country. The war was not started by Superpowers, it was started by North Korea.

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If the approach I'm referring to had been followed, I believe the differences between the two Koreas would have narrowed to such a degree that unification would have occurred by now.

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Originally Posted by Tachikaze

If the approach I'm referring to had been followed, I believe the differences between the two Koreas would have narrowed to such a degree that unification would have occurred by now.

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And most likely you would be incorrect. The old man wanted and the son wants absolute control over Korea.