Will North Korea Fall?

Foreign policy columnist Fareed Zakaria, writing for The Washington Post, asks us to contemplate the problematic sequelae from a collapse of the North Korean regime. Everybody who has looked at the possibility believes it will be much more traumatic than the merger of the two Germanys.

A major player in all this is China, which is clearly concerned about a flood of Korean refugees pouring across the northern border into China. China may also be concerned about the North's nukes in the hands of a unified Korea, sharing a border.