Uncle Don and Uncle Moon will be paying for the foodstuffs as we rush our top people to the Rare Earth, Gold and Platinum fields to dig up the $30 TRILLION or more in deposits. How ‘bout that business model? Too bad for the Japanese that they had to bomb Pearl Harbor and lose such a valuable colony by doing so.
So send in the earth moving equipment and take what we want? Who gets paid for the mining rights? Well, if we use the failed USSR as any indication, it will be some educated well-connected high-ranking minister of whatever in the Kim regime, not the aforementioned villager subsisting on beetle larvae and methamphetamine. Point is that NK is so dysfunctional now, that simply going in there amounts to raping a person in a coma. They have no defenses. It’s not like they are a country of college educated norwegians marooned there six months ago.