[mack73]

I don't think what we need right now is a world police, especially not an American one. But, since you mention a region on earth that you seem to think is in need of integrating with the rest, what would you think would happen to the region that is USA if civil war cracked it open? Do you think at least half of that country could be integrated with the rest of the world?

[geezerjay]

> But, since you mention a region on earth that you seem to think is in need of integrating

You do know that Korea was artificially split in half due to the ongoing war, don't you?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea

Germany was also split, and was reunited. I don't believe it's necessary to explain why.

[astrodust]

When the US does split you're going to have multiple fragments, one of which will be so impossible to deal with that everyone else will just pretend they don't exist.

[chicxulub]

Gee, you seem to be pointing a tough question at somebody who advocated some "world policing" but I wonder who that was because it wasn't the parent post.

In fact, re-read that comment, because what was said pretty much advocated policing absolutely nobody.

But, okay, let's all argue. You're right. North Korea isn't isolated from the world at all, and its citizens pretty much go anywhere they want, do whatever they want, and come back home whenever they're done doing as they please.

But I wonder: if the typical North Korean citizen were unhappy (and we know they aren't), where would they go, and what would they do, if this hypothetical repressive lid (which doesn't exist) were suddenly lifted, and the pressure of a (normal) subculture were relaxed?