What about engineering the assassinations of Kim Jong Un and his cohorts? Maybe the Chinese would do it.
No way that's going to happen. The nut with the bad haircut has the country so under his thumb that unless the conspiracy was carried out at the highest level of his generals in total secrecy it would be destined to fail. On the other hand a well timed barrage of cruise missiles on the location of his immediate presence should do the trick if the right people were in place to replace his regime.
i think the cruise missiles would be detected, unless we have stealth models (which come to think of it we probably do). if they were detected we would not get him and would risk forcing his hand. like i said earlier its a shit sandwich either way
I think the chances of that happening are somewhere between Slim & None. Slim has left town and None is saddling up.
A lengthy, but pretty informative article from the NY Times on the N. Korea missile threat. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/world/asia/north-korea-war-us-icbm.html