At some point, we must come face-to-face with reality. The only way to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear program is militarily—at the cost of a major war (potentially including China) with casualties at least in the hundreds of thousands on both sides of the DMZ and with the significant likelihood we will be unable to find and target all the hidden underground storage and deployment sites. With the instruments of power available, if neither force nor nonmilitary instruments will work, what option is left?
