If China had not come in to support the communist north in 1950 it is quite likely that Korea would have been one country and doing very well by now. As it is, the North are fiercely independent and simply want to be left alone to follow their own path. The Korean War was never officially ended and the North Koreans still have a siege mentality which we in the West generally do not understand. They are enormously proud of their achievements in rocketry and nuclear weapons and they feel that this is what they need to guarantee their independence.
How should the West react?
How should the West react?
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