Actually, Hwang Jang-Yop, the former party secretary of N. Korean Worker's Party and the most prominent N. Korean defector to date, maintains that the resolute steady pressure to N. Korea will force it to drastically change its course even without any military confrontation. He said, in a recent talk, that Kim Jong-Il was such a selfish egoist that he would not dare go suicidal by taking on U.S. with his nukes. In short, he does not mind starving millions of N. Koreans to stay in power but he won't risk his own life just to go down in a blaze of glory rather than back off.