If North Korea had oil but no nukes...

[Boojatta]

then would it, rather than Iraq, have been invaded?

Would it have become like South Korea or would it have turned into something like today's Iraq?

Would China have said, "Don't you dare. The dictator of North Korea is an SOB, but he's our SOB"?

[LiberalVoice]

1. It would be a million times worse.

For one thing it would have taken much longer for the government to fall. Second the army would not have surrendered like the Iraqi's did so soon.

[MrModerate]

2. Our soldiers would be dying . . .

with kim chee on their breath.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. We will never find out.The NK is the last place they would ever

try to colonize. Iraq was about the biggest piece of low hanging fruit that ever existed in world history.

[crikkett]

4. ...they wouldn't be starving.