Originally Posted by
tartare
Before the North's army is laregly obliterated and Kim and team taken out.
And then...
Mass refugee exodus to China?
The first is easier said than done. The population may not dare becoming refugees.
These are not unwilling Arab conscripts and the terrain is not ideal open desert. Think Afg writ large with well equipped troops possibly well trained and fanatical fighting for the only life they know.
We might like to think they are an oppressed people hoping for salvation from American cruise missiles but we thought that of Iraq, Syria etc and have forgotten Vietnam.