January 3, 2003

North Korea Can't Win

North Korea Can't Win
Donald Sensing explains why North Korea can wreak devastation on South Korea but would ultimately lose a second Korean War. It has something to do with the Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, 1898.

The North can invade the South, but it cannot win. The ensuing war would be disastrous for the South in terms of human loss, also for the North unless the war ended with the South's suzerainty over the North. But even so, the North Korean people would suffer very greatly until then. The problem, though, is not that the North could win such a war. It is that its isolated, self-justifying oligarchy might think it can win. And with its impending development of atomic weapons, it may think that all the more.