That guy didn't belong in any sort of position of influence over this region. The guy didn't care about anything other than his own power gains and didn't even do a very good job of hiding the fact either.

I guess you read the ICG report on the North Koreans journeys in escaping North Korea. Let's just hope the North Koreans and the Chinese already knew everything they wrote on that report.

But unfortunately, no level of embargo or any other sanction against North Korea is going to work in ending this unless the idea is to starve every last man, woman and child in North Korea to death including Kim Jong-il himself.

1) Do nothing

2) Invade, costing South Korea millions dead (I believe a USFK estimate on casualties sustained in the event of a full scale North Korean barrage on Seoul could lead up to about 1 million civilian deaths in the opening 24 hours alone) and the destruction of the 13th largest economy in the world, risking a war with China etc etc.

That's probably why.

The last thing South Koreans want is an actual war in the Peninsula and reports regarding death camps in North Korea will serve no other purpose other then starting a war.

If you ask me, if a solution to the North Korean barrage on Seoul can be found, destroying the North Korean government and liberating those people in those camps will be the right thing to do.

However, I am not for unification, if only for the sake of the North Koreans who will be treated like utter garbage in South Korea, since we know what a tolerant and kind bunch Koreans are. That sort of thing would lead to a sort of division that will make any war for unification irrelevant.

Let's just hope the Chinese don't end up getting North Korea or attaining North Korea as a satellite/vassal state (which is a very likely demand that they will make).