While I don't necessarily disagree with the premise of this article (the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is not happening), it annoys the hell out of me whenever I see the Iraq/Libya comparison. North Korea actually has a strong non-nuclear deterrent (the shelling of Seoul) that neither Libya or Iraq had...even if you take the nuclear threat out of the equation, thousands upon thousands of civilians would die in a second Korean War even if the South and the US were to secure a fairly quick victory. Libya is an even worse comparison, because Qaddafi was in trouble even before the US/European intervention, we only intervened in the midst of a popular revolution—something that is unlikely (at least right now) in North Korea.
