North Korea vows nuclear retaliation for USA-SO.KO. military drills

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Rath said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

Nuke Kim to educate Ahmadinejad. If Kim is kind enough to provide the casus belli (or more precisely, casus foederis), it could work nicely.

Anyhow, why pollute the environment with a small nuclear war when it could be prevented using this nice gizmo on the sole Kim (and Ahmadinejad too, to prevent further troubles)?

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steyr_IWS_2000

Joking right? Assasinating them would make problems worse, especially in Iran. Iran has a grass roots progressive movement, it's best left alone if it's to flourished. In N.Korea assassinating Kim Jong Il would lead to certain war and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of deaths.

This is a classic realpolitik reasoning, similar to what prevented France and UK from having Hitler killed asap. And guess what? Things just kept on going worse and at the end of WWII half Europe was given to Stalin (that actually initially planned to share it with Hitler, before Hitler's folly screwed up their plan, and was never punished for this, he eventually grabbed what he wanted with UK and USA permission instead).

So an assassination, even with its worst consequences, would just be a lesser bad. In Iran's case it would be necessary to kill the most integralist ayatollahs too, leaving alive the moderate ones, and obviously also the highest ranking pasdaran officers, so a well organized conspiracy would be necessary. But in North Korea, Kim's death would at the very least bring the limited positive effects of Stalin's death in the former USSR.