The Day After North Korea Collapses

The big question we should be asking is: What about the day after? If the regime's days are numbered, the end is likely to be messier than anything we've seen in the Arab Spring. Why aren't we sitting down with the Chinese, South Koreans, Japanese and Russians and making a plan to prevent nuclear material from being sold to the Russian mafia or the Chinese triads; to keep some panicky general from incinerating Seoul; to dissuade China or Russia from sending in troops to take advantage; to fend off an even more monumental human calamity than the famine of the mid-90s? Then, how do we reunify Korea without bankrupting the South? These are the questions we and North Korea's neighbours should be asking, together and urgently.