North Korea What to do?

[Benton]

(06-29-2017, 04:01 PM)Dill Wrote: Two questions:

Should the US abandon Japan and Taiwan as well?

If North Korea attacks the South, should the US then stay out of it?

Japan is unique given our WWII history and the agreements that were made in the years after. Many (all?) of which are still honored between the two countries. Our military presence there is not the same as our presence in South Korea or Niger or Australia. 

Taiwan, I'll admit, I don't stay very well versed of. I would help them join the United Nations and — similar to NATO with Russia — encourage Taiwan and other nations concerned about an aggressive China to form an ally agreement. Our formal agreement with Taiwan ended in the 80s (if I'm remembering right, I was in elementary school then).

And, yes, if North attacks South, the US should stay out of it, by and large. Help those displaced by fighting, offer assistance to victims. But we don't have to fight every fight in the name of stopping one despot or another. We need to encourage more of a unified effort through allies and potential allies and less of us taking on the role of trying to scare everyone into getting along.