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Can't get much worse than what they already had.

If destruction exists, we must destroy everything.
Shuruppak Yuratuhl
Slaad Shrpk Breizh

Certainly. Kim was some new dude at some point as well, his father was also revered as a god and the same wacky stories were told about him that the people believed. If they're that brainwashed it would just be a small jump to think the son capable of the same.

Dvergar /
Quisling

The new leaders may be able to gain the loyalty of their people, at least enough to maintain the status quo.

But it is human nature to split the difference between new experience and old, no matter how faulty or deluded the old experience. People do not easily let go of learned habits and ideas, even those thoroughly debunked. And it is also human nature to equate price - what something costs us - with value - with what it is worth to us. And the Kim regime has cost the Korean people dearly.

Should the DPRK fall and be unified with the South, the people will not easily unlearn the brutality and autocracy they have come to live with for the last seventy years. The bulk of Russian society still "splits the difference" when it comes to Stalin - "well, he did bad things, but he can't have been all bad", and there is every reason to believe the Koreans will be at least as tenacious in their perception of the Kims - it will not be easy for them to accept they wasted three generations on utter madness.

Furthermore, it is in the nature of human institutions to seek to maintain and increase their power, even unto irrelevance. When movements or institutions become irrelevant, they do not fold, they make themselves relevant one way or another. This has been a major agitating factor in the conflict in Judaea, and it is why the American military machine has not scaled down either after the wars or with the demise of the USSR. It's also true of the civil rights movement.

To defend against each other, both North and South have built up massive, well-funded and politically influential military machines. Even if the South should prevail - as it inevitably must - I see no reason to believe that their military shall cede its relevance, its funding, its influence...and if the USSR or Haiti has taught us anything, it's that the spectre of the defunct North Korean military will continue to haunt the world for decades, even centuries, to come.

Peace in Korea may be the most deadly outcome of all.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

Ill never understand the desire to have that much control over anything.

Merely because you do not understand does not mean you do not partake.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

You're right, I'm a north korean despot.

your hardon for me is getting annoying.

The will to power motivates all God's creatures, in one way or another.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

You don't believe in God, so you can't believe in that quote either.

Ok, you win.

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

don't mind me just making sure I get this in before you change your mind.

"...and God hardened his heart..."

Aestu of Bleeding Hollow...

Nihilism is a copout.

Wow, I'm so jealous of Usdk right now. It's like this:

World of Warcraft : Getting a Legendary :: FUBU : Aestu says "Ok, you win" to you

haha it's good to be famous, i guess.