How to deal with North Korea
I have an idea that just might be crazy enough to work. For the most part, people agree that economic sanctions don’t work. Well, it probably did have some effect in Libya’s turn-around but in generally sanctions are a blunt instrument that negatively impacts millions of innocent civilians. There is nothing surgical about it. And, we know how our military likes to be “surgical”.
So what of North Korea?
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Think North Korea doesn’t look at Samsung in South Korea and wish they had one of those?
Capitalism is the fulcrum of diplomacy. We should embrace North Korea with business opportunity. It’s a huge market. Let’s trade with them. Let’s incent them with something more than threats. People have a funny way of changing their perspectives towards those who benefit them financially. China has nuclear weapons and a great deal of military resources yet we work with them because it’s in our best interest to do so. As China makes more money from the US over time, they will have increased motivations to capitulate to international demand as it relates to human rights issues. We haven’t had any true cooperative spirit with North Korea in 50 years. How has it served us? Same for Cuba. How has it served us? We had sanctions on Iraq for years and how had it served us? We’re there now in war!
People respond to econominc benefit and the spirit of growth. Not the threat of stagnation and death. When we start to let big business between US and North Korea invoke better cash flow throughout the country, then it is probable that we will have more leverage with North Korea.
People don’t like to bomb their investors. I mean, even when we were feeding bin Laden during the Afghan crisis he worked hard to achieve our means against the Soviets.
I think it’s just crazy enough it might work.
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