What should we do about North Korea?

In this post i will simply put my opinion on this and all are welcome to discuss your own.

So over the last year North Korea have started to threaten the United States with nuclear weapons. Is it as simple as a mad man dictator threatening the west? That's what the U.S government want you to believe.

North Korea and the US are still at war and they have been since the Korean war in 1950, after agreeing to an armistice during the Korean war this was not an official end to the war. It is also not unusual for an American citizen to not know anything about this war, after all the US air strike on Pyongyang destroyed almost 75% of the capital and was only part of a bombing campaign that killed nearly 3 million north Koreans. Not surprising that they don't teach you this at school.

American troops are all over the world and they are on the border of South Korea to North Korea, i understand the need for an american presence since there has been tension between the North and South for a while and the US and south Korea are close allies, this was maybe the right move at one point, in my opinion not anymore. Kim has said repeatedly that the reason for a nuclear arsenal is to counteract american aggression and i think that it has reached a point where america must accept that North Korea is a nuclear power and move it's troops away. Throughout history the presence of enemy troops on the border is a threatening act. Let's take the Cuban missile crisis for example, the Soviet Union moved nuclear weapons to Cuba in the height of the Cold War, this spread panic across the whole country and an agreement was made to remove them, in other words america did not like it. Now, recently the US moved nuclear armed bombers to Guam as a direct threat to North Korea. Is this not the same thing that america had no tolerance for back in Cuba?

American actions across the middle east is also a major factor in this crisis. Overthrowing Saddam Hussein in 2003 over suspicion of chemical weapons sent a major message to the world and North Korea was listening. Although in some ways America was justified in it's actions towards Iraq, in a lot of ways they weren't. The death toll now reaches half a million in Iraq since the US invasion and $100 billion has been spent reconstructing the country and aiding citizens wounded by war. This was a messy war that cost the country almost everything. Rushing into a war like this without taking into consideration that other rogue states were watching was careless. It was almost obvious that a country like north Korea would decide to build on it's military power in case the same thing happened to them.

I don't even need to point out that the way Trump has handled the situation has been extremely immature and unprofessional and has rapidly increased the tensions between the two countries. in my opinion taking all history into account america needs to accept and leave North Korea alone. The cost of trying to remove his nuclear weapons will end in millions dying and potentially pulling china into war that could escalate into another world war. They have told america that if they remove all aggression nothing will come of his nuclear weapons but if the US can't accept it we could be looking at another few million dead. The facts are that the reason North Korea is such a threat is due to american actions.

Kim Jong Un is a terrible man, don't get me wrong. But this was never about human rights and it never will be, as sad as it is. It wasn't about human rights when America destroyed North Korea and killed 3 million. The war in Iraq was never about human rights either so it's irreverent. I am a firm believer that first world countries need to move against rogue states that defy human rights, if it is done with that reason. A war with North Korea will cause devastation in a country already destroyed by poverty and more sanctions by the UN only causes more poverty when it isn't the citizens fault.

Best solution, America has to be first to give up nuclear weapons and i believe that most countries will follow suit. Especially when the reason most enemy countries have them is counteract Americas nuclear weapons in the first place.