User blog comment:Solowing106/A second Cold War?/@comment-3469974-20130401022904

It not likely. North Korea is rapidly approaching the status of failed state, and the reason that the country hasn't collapsed yet is because of the foriegn aid that they recieve from the U.N., E.U., and even South Korea. If a war were to erupt between the U.S. and South Korea against North Korea it would almost certainly end in a very swift North Korean victory (I mean defeat.) Their army is poorly trained, poorly equipped, poorly supplied, starving, and extremely outdated, whereas the South Korea armed forces are considered among the ten most powerful militaries in the world. But in order to bring North Korea down we would need to convince China to abandon North Korea or possably even attack them as well, which will most certainly lead to World War 3.

What a world...