Korea is a poor country prepared to defend itself. Australia is the 13th. richest country in the world, and we don't have a significant defence force. 

we don't have a significant defence force.
ttbn,
And, no-one's interested in a National Service ! Anyhow, Australia's Demographic now no longer allows even thinking about defence as its potential enemies are already residing here & getting supported by public funding.
North Koreans have been working on keeping those who mean to destroy their Nation at bay whereas Australia's Leftist have invited them to set up camp here.

individual

They won't even put those on the dole or JobKeeper to work, preferring to import workers.

Need to remember the North Korean viewpoint. Look at the US led Korean War which got to the stage was not much bombing because there was not much that had not been bombed. The political end situation of the war was about the same as at when it started. Since then the North Koreans have not dared let down their guard against more possible US led attacks. Would be very conscious of what happened to leaders including Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Gaddafi in Libya when they did not have enough possible means of retaliating. Seems now an important thing to hopefully stop bullies associated with the US government from attacking North Korea is possibility of retaliatory nuclear strike which may not be intercepted. Seems helpful for North Korea to make more labour available for rice planting and harvesting. US led military exercises near North Korea were often timed to coincide with these so more resources were devoted to military reserves instead.

They won't even put those on the dole or JobKeeper to work, preferring to import workers.
ttbn,
We can't blame this Govt for that deplorable situation. It's the Australian Education system saturated by Labor supporting indifferent bureaucrats put there by just as indifferent voters.
Imagine what would happen if this Govt demanded all bureaucrats do their job ?
The public Service Union & Education Unions would escalate their opposition to a Coalition Govt
to a straight-out war.
You see, Govt is only a small part of the problem, the voters are the REAL problem. Kim Jong Un should be hired as an advisor !

Mox,

You seem to be confused into thinking that the US started the Korean war?

Yep all true! And we without question are in the crosshairs! And confront it with a leadership that believes we are protected by some umbrella that might as well be the Emperor's new clothes! we live in a fool's paradise lead by incompetent complacent fools and knaves.
When is the best time to remove the self imposed asinine embargo on nuclear power and weapons? Answer, twenty years ago! failing that now as if our lives and freedom depended on it and it does! And we need a space industry and new engines to power those craft. something that will move one just a tad below lightspeed.

And doable with new solid state circuitry that subverts magnetic force to overcome gravity! And very doable with the right science. And able to move planets and turn them into spacecraft able to sustain life as we know it, while moving to the edge of the universe.

What would Mr Musk pay for such and engine? If I knew how to build one and I do. Would I receive 1.5 billion for the prototype and the patent rights plus a nonrefundable 15 million for agreeing to head up such a project. Seven years is the upper known limit on life expectancy for inoperable brain cancer. Tick, tick, tick. And should I see another Christmas I will have exceeded that upper limit by a month or so.

No point breaking into my house again as the is no paper no hard drive, just my cerebral curcuits!
Alan B.

Force? I have a heart condition as well And all but teeter on the edge of the grave. Would not need very much to ensure thst this knowlege went to the grave with me

Alan B,

Sorry to hear about your illness and I wish you well.

North Korea is a nuclear country whose people are starving. Sanctions need to be maintained to encourage NK to relinquish their weapons.

The US also should re-establish Nukes in South Korea.

Capitalists; Like John Wayne Gacy, all the mistakes are buried under the house!

Dan

Is mentality of ignorant bullies, of which there seems to be plenty in the US administration to think that sanctions will encourage North Korea to give up their nuclear weapons. To me it is obvious there is no way they would voluntarily. The reason they developed them was to reduce the risk of another US led attempted invasion and the need to keep a large military force om standby to deter one. (Possibly while US led provocative military exercises are held nearby.) Look at the long list of countries the US has invaded under often flimsy pretexts when their governments do not conform to its demands. Nowadays as direct military action would be largely unacceptable, they use all sorts of subversive tactics including infiltrating organisations and sponsoring terrorists. Another example of bullying sanctions is against Iran, where Western powers have been trying to regain some sort of control ever since Iranians deposed their stooge The Shah in 1979. Since then Iran has built formidable conventional military defences and has been accused - probably falsely of developing nuclear weapons.

Mox,

The only reason the UN-led by the US got involved in Korea was at the request of the legitimate South Korean government request when it was invaded by communist North Korea.

Since the armistice in 1953 nearly 70 years ago the US has given no indication that it has any intention to invade NK.

NK is a prime example of communism where the paranoid regime is happy to spend $trillions on weapons it can never use while its people starve.

Mr. Thae Yong-Ho was a North Korean minister in London. He defected to South Korea in 2016. He says economic sanctions alone will not make Pyongyang give up its nuclear programmes and that nothing short of military means will be effective.

But sanctions will at least limit how strong its army is. Presently, its conventional army would easily be beaten by SK alone.

"Since the armistice in 1953 nearly 70 years ago the US has given no indication that it has any intention to invade NK."

The US doesn't invade nuclear armed countries, It invades weaker countries.
It prefers to overthow autocratic / non-democratic countries with coloured revolutions, and then it robs those nations of their resources.

That's why Russia, China, North Korea and Iran are all on the hit list.

Democracy is the vehicle where they can best rob and steal a nation of its assets, and control and socially engineer the populace, in accordance to elites global agendas.

If you think I'm wrong didn't they sell the ports, the rail, the post, the electricity companies etc. and what did they give back?
Transgender toilets, All Men are Rapists, Diversity Quotas for foreigners and all the other woke crap.

AC,

The US didn't invade NK for the 60 years before it had nukes.

As far as I know, Russia is a nuclear-armed state.