(The first in what is to be an occasional series on the geopolitics of the Korean peninsula)
I found a great article by Dr. Hahm Chaibong (함재봉).
_{via ">North Korea Zone}

Dr. Hahm might be the last honest man in NK studies. I'm a pacifist and a fan of democratic socialism and I support a much harder negotiating line on NK. It would appear that everyone in the discussion has a favorite dictator, I choose none of the above. The economic development that Park encouraged did more good than bad on balance. He certainly was not as bad as the Kims but that is very faint praise. On the other hand it baffles me how those who participated and even lost friends in the struggle against dictatorship at home can serve as enablers of a worse one next door. I'm no fan of American hegemony but when students and friends told me they found the US a greater danger than the North, I was flabbergasted. Those who would argue that because North and South are brothers, the North poses no threat have clearly never had siblings. Unfortunately for the apologists for the bad old days (they know who they are, "better oppressed than red" and all that hot air) the US has squandered its credibility with the people of South Korea and that hurts America and both Koreas. Across the third world, the US pushed nationalist revolutionary movements into Moscow's arms by supporting the oppressive status quo. Likewise in SK, the perception that the US supported the regime meant that opposing the generals implied opposing the US.
An end to the conflict on the Korean peninsula should not come in any other way than as one unified nation with all nine provinces governed in the same free democratic fashion. Only then will it be safe to throw the Americans out (if that is the desired course of action).