# How to beat North Korea

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-beat-north-korea/808164>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 4, 2018, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-beat-north-korea/808164 "2018-02-04T15:51:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-beat-north-korea/808164/41 "2018-02-10T14:41:10Z")

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I was going to suggest knocking them on their asses at the blue line … but checking isn’t allowed in women’s ice hockey … so a basic neutral zone trap should keep them out well enough …

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**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-beat-north-korea/808164/42 "2018-02-11T13:39:10Z")

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> [@drewder](#):
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> Because there are millions of North Koreans living in the most desperate situation possible. It is the humanitarian crisis of our day and to ignore it is to lose some of our humanity.
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> Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk

and you think removing their government and plunging the country into chaos will improve their lives? Did that work in Iraq?

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**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2018, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-beat-north-korea/808164/43 "2018-02-11T19:29:04Z")

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> [@madmonk28](#):
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> and you think removing their government and plunging the country into chaos will improve their lives? Did that work in Iraq?

I’m talking about an ordered transition to a unified Korea. Not the toppling of the government in a week.

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