I was in Baghdad right after it fell. The same people chanting “Saddam, Saddam!” one week prior were defacing his images everywhere after the Coalition Forces sacked Baghdad. The same exact thing happened in Romania with Nicolai Ceacescu; one week they were hailing him as the ‘Generalissimo Father” of Romania and the next they overwhlmed the government and executed the tyrant and his wife. In both cases, there was bloodshed, but that paled in proportion to the lives saved.

In Iraq, 90% of all casulaties during the past six years have been inflicted by other Iraqis. A similar situation could occur in NK after the regime fails when those who controlled power wind up on the outside looking in as did the Sunni Arabs.

My answer is to support the SK government’s policies. That would not be unqualified support, however. The policy must include punishing economic sanctions and a full-tilt information operations war (formerly known as propaganda). The way to remove KJI is to foment democratic thinking in the DPRK by information infiltration. That way the NKs will bring down the idolatrous Juche regime themselves, or with aid from the UN Alliance.

The center of gravity in NK is the Juche religion. Once ideology in NK is sufficiently weakened (and its well on the way down), the civil disturbances and clandestine planning begins. Once rank and file Soldiers reject the Juche religion, its over.

Joshua, my better half is blogging about SECDEF Gates’ spiritless remarks given to Chris Wallace on FOX yesterday – video + selected quotes from transcript…