It's also unnecessary, as there are other -- and better -- ways to do this. Bush has made a significant point of drawing a distinction between the NK regime, and the people of NK. He did it again, today.
The key to the problem is not to destroy the people, it's to destroy the regime. I'm pretty sure we have the stomach to do that, and with China we have a partner (not an ally) with an incentive to finally address the problem of that little bedbug next door.
To a man with a hammer, the whole world is a nail. Put down the hammer, and put on your thinking cap.
Yes that's why the problem with Iran is not as complicated as many people thing. The long hidden fact still is that most Iranians do not like their current government, and did not vote for Ahmadinejad, the Mulla's in Iran did. We don't need to destroy the people to destroy the threat. We need to replace the governments, destroy them if necessary, and replace them with democratic governments elected by the people, like in Iraq, which isn't as bad as the critics like to spew about on a daily basis. The terrorists take heavy losses daily, we do not, the government there rolls on, and attacks take place in less then 5% of the country, effecting less then 5% of the population of Iraq. That's the truth of Iraq that never gets shown on TV. Replacing governments is hard, but it's the key to winning the war. No democracy, a REAL representative constitutional Republic, run by people who were elected by the people, has EVER attacked another free nation with the same kind of government. Period, end of story. It's just never happened. If liberals really want to end the war, they'd get behind exporting free democratic forms of government, but they'll never do that, because most American liberals are socialists at heart and they think that the form of free government we have is bad and the root of all the worlds problems. That's their dirty little secret that conservatives need to expose. Liberals hate real free democratic government because that's what's kept them out of power for over a decade.