Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates look out over North Korea from Observation Point Ouellette during a tour at the Demilitarized Zone that separates South and North Korea, July 21, 2010. Defense Department photo by Cherie Cullen 'N.Korea Could Be Mother Of All Insurgencies' -- Khaleej Times/AFP
QUANTICO, VIRGINIA - North Korea’s regime has long defied naysayers by persevering through famines, floods and global opprobrium. But what would happen if the upcoming power transition marks the beginning of the end?
In the view of one US military strategist, a collapse of North Korea — a dirt-poor nation with an indoctrinated population and nuclear-armed military — could result in no less than the greatest world crisis in modern times.
Colonel David Maxwell, who heads the Strategic Initiatives Group at the Army’s Special Operations Command, said that the United States needed to invest more time planning for the most dire scenario, even if it does not transpire.
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My Comment: A sober analysis on a "what if" situation in North Korea. But I suspect that even though many are talking about a need to develop a framework on what needs to be done if the worse case scenario happens in North Korea .... the reality is that should it happen, we will still be surprised, and it will be the Koreans themselves (both North and South) who will resolve the crisis.
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