What would be the aftermath though? We would validate their propaganda painting the west as evil, he will only be replaced by another crazy person, and the country would be thirsty for war if kill their leader.

He'd nuke Japan or south Korea. If there was some way to just completely wipe north Korea off the map without them blowing up Tokyo someone would have already done it

Send Seth Rogan!

Can we kill Trump first.

Add Hillary Clinton to this as well and every warmonger in the USA.

Really we should just kill everyone but me and Emma Watson and get it over with.

Not good enough reason in my opinion to possibly start a war by killing him or starting a war to kill him. You need some really solid reasons to justify it. "What if" is not good enough.

It's better to let china deal with him.

If Japan goes I think I'll lose the will to live. We need to get rid of North Korea now.

You wont kill him without a full scale invasion, which would leave the neighboring countries with the problem of Millions of refugees attempting to escape. Considering how armed the Chinese border is, and how the likelihood of China taking any refugees is next to none and how the Russian's would rather kill them than take them, they're all gonna go south.

This brings up another problem. You invade NK and you end up with them probably leveling a whole lot of Seoul and the north end of SK being a complete warzone. They're gonna react against Japan and I wouldn't at all be surprised to see them take aim at Beijing. Depending on what they have available, that could be hundreds of thousands more casualties. Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo have a combined population of ~40 Million. If you don't have China and Japan in agreement with the war on NK, then there's gonna be another reaction. It could potentially be the start of a much bigger and far more brutal war.

You have no idea how the people of NK would actually react to (what would be) a US-led invasion too, by the way. When you consider that for decades they've been fed anti-US and anti-Western propaganda, when they see their land and lives being ruined by a western force the propaganda suddenly gets a lot more real. These people could rise up and fight.

When you do finally out the regime, the cost of bringing NK inline with the rest of the region would be astronomical, as would the cost of the war itself. Who does this fall upon? Who takes over? What happens with the people of NK, now that the country has been flattened?

It's far more than just killing Kim, it's what comes from it.

He's not gonna do all that shit when he knows he's gonna die if he does. It's a stalemate.

He carries on showing force so he remains idolized by his people, we carry on not moving in because it'll cause trillions of dollars, millions of deaths and countless humanitarian crises'.

With that mindset you're literally no better than any psychotic fascist you're complaining about.