To say that North Korea profited in the Korean War or will in a future conflict is preposterous. The DPRK was soundly defeated and retained their position only through Chinese intervention. The RoK at least attempted to fight with US support in the more restricted terrain in the East. The PRoC is the primary winner in the war as a political victory, defying a world superpower. This does not really account that their success is largely due to US blundering and passiveness but is nevertheless significant. The US was however, able to show credibility in its willingness to sacrifice and oppose overt use of force. This removes one of the primary advantages of communist forces in the post-WWII era, possession and manpower. Communist forces knew that possession was 9/10 of the law and that they had the men to push the West around. At Yalta and Potsdam they could promise whatever doublespeak they felt like because they had the men. In a slugging match they would always come out on top and knew the West was loathe to commit lives to enforce policy. Yet in Korea the United States proved it was willing to pick up the gauntlet. Never again would communist forces challenge the West in open battle. They learned the will of free men was not so easily broken when challenged. Despite the ambiguous nature of a war of policy, Americans stood and fought. Communist forces were instead forced to use subterfuge, which is a long and slow process. Much of their advantage, the easy quick victory with force of arms, was removed.

This leads us then to the future. The seeds of the PRoC rise to power is also the seeds of the Sino-Soviet split orchestrated by Nixon and Kissinger. China cannot rise in international communism. It exposed the organization for what it is, a vehicle for the seizure of power. Communism excels at producing hundreds of divisions, men of hardiness and ruthlessness and cunning. But this does not make a state. Consider the following excerpt from Cold War historian John Lewis Gaddis:

“To visualize what happened, imagine a troubled triceratops.  From the outside,  as rivals contemplated its sheer size, tough skin, bristling armament, and aggressive posturing, the beast looked sufficiently formidable that none dared tangle with it.  Appearances deceived, though, for within its digestive, circulatory, and respiratory systems were slowly clogging up, and then shutting down.  There were few external signs of this until the day the creature was found with all four feet in the air, still awesome but now bloated, stiff, and quite dead.  The moral of the fable is that armaments make impressive exoskeletons, but a shell alone ensures the survival of no animal and no state.”

History has proven the graveyard of socialism. A state built under the best murderer, the best liar, and the best rapist, is no state at all. In 60 years of peace the DPRK has fallen 40 years behind. They are forced to seek nuclear and chemical weapons because they have admitted defeat in conventional battle. In 60 more years they will 140 years behind. They know they fall behind further each day and they know if they attack they will met with united response as they were the first time. They cannot win. They can only bluff. Their teeth are still sharp but they grow longer everyday. The dragon is in a cage of its own making: shrunken, sniveling and pathetic. The evidence of our victory is around us everyday. All that is required is to leave the DPRK to its fate.