About the land of bad options and worse still, Joshua Snyder asks why Americans shouldn’t disentangle ourselves from the Korean peninsula.

While conservatives in South Korea and the United States have long maligned the “Sunshine Policy” of economic engagement with North Korea, defectors themselves, and the local experts they quote, understand that it is indeed the best way to effect long-term change in the North. Why not let trade bring about the economic growth necessary for the North Korean people to bring about regime change in their own country? While it might be gradual and piecemeal, in the long run, it will be far more cost effective than continuing the confrontational policies of the last six decades.

Well, perhaps not cost-effective. Just not as confrontational.

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