I admire how US military experts prudently exaggerate the dangers of their own errors (TMH).

If the regime collapsed, foreign forces would likely face a major threat from insurgents whose belief in the Kim family’s philosophy of “juche” — or self-reliance — resembles religious fanaticism, Maxwell argued.

“The North Korean people will not welcome the South Korean military, international forces or anybody outside of North Korea,” Maxwell said.

“We made that assumption recently that we would be welcomed as liberators and we know how that turned out,” he said, referring to the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

And an insurgency in North Korea would be “far more sophisticated than what exists in Iraq or Afghanistan now,” Maxwell said.

He said an insurgency could tap into North Korea’s military might. Despite its meager economy, North Korea has more than one million standing troops — one of the largest forces in the world — along with nuclear weapons.

One problem with comparing Iraq with the DPRK. No matter how much the average North Korean, or even, North Korean dissident in a gulag, hates his/her government, there are no members of a minority sect – Shi’ites – of his/her religion that can keep the xenophobic gorge from rising – or the calculus to use the foreigner to kill the domestic enemy. As a matter of fact, North Koreans are probably so nationalistic, what they need is a country that repays their loyalty.

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