I wrote an essay in high school in which I compared Hamlet and Horatio to Starsky and Hutch or Batman and Robin. I was saying that Hamlet was trying to solve his father’s murder and Horatio was his sidekick. The substitute teacher didn’t like it so I complained to the regular teacher when he got back.
I make the analogy with North Korea. North Korea is obviously a threat to South Korea. But if South Korea were to start bombing North Korea and kill 250 people a day the question would be how long it would take for people to ask “Why are you doing this?”