Sometimes I wonder if they're hoping for war and defeat. After all, what is the usual end result? They lose a lot of military personnel and civilians, reducing the number of people to feed, and then they get rebuilt at the expense of the victors.
Couldn't we just go for the Budget Plan and carpet-bomb them with neutron weapons? Then after a week, when the residual radiation has dropped to safe levels, we can quickly bury all the sterilized bodies and call Century-21. We could make a lot of money selling half of North Korea to South Korea and the other half to China. Maybe in trade for forgiving some of the debt we owe them.
Couldn't we just go for the Budget Plan and carpet-bomb them with neutron weapons?
How about we let South Korea worry about what is South Korea's problem? These two young South Korean bucks
performing on youtube (language warning) look they'd make good cannon fodder in a war with their North Korean brothers. The possibility of tens of hundreds of thousands South Koreans dead pales in comparison to the risk that a few of them might be killed in traffic accidents involving US military vehicles. Remember how loud mouthed they were about that? They are quite restrained about the people killed deliberately by the north.