James Stavridis proposes the genuinely awful idea of a naval blockade of North Korea as the “best option”: The real challenge, of course, would be political, not operational. While North Korea ...

In England, as well as at the North, they have ... exists only on paper. If our blockade be of that nature, it cannot, therefore, be any bar to the trade of the South with other countries, and ...

It also hastened the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an American-Western European military alliance. In May 1949, Stalin had little choice but to lift the blockade.