<human>: Reading the comments on NK-related threads I am seeing a lot of rhetoric on reddit that reminds me of the time right before we invaded Iraq. Here are the ideas I'm seeing:

*Victory in North Korea would be very swift due to our technological and military superiority

*The people of NK are being oppressed, so they will welcome us as liberators and not form a civilian insurgency

*Any hostility by NK would be met with summary destruction and minimal or no losses for the Western Allies

We are definitely technologically and militarily superior to North Korea, but we were also superior to Iraq, and we only just recently withdrew combat troops from there. 

The Iraqi citizens were being oppressed, but they did not welcome us as liberators and formed a dangerous insurgency. I feel like it will only be worse in North Korea where the entire populace has been isolated and brainwashed into thinking of the Kim family as close to deities.

Even if loss of life is minimal on our side, wouldn't an engagement with North Korea be extraordinarily expensive even just for the United States and Europe, as the Iraq war was? Without even mentioning the cost to South Korea.

Can you provide a brief rundown of the text in within 3 sentences?
<bot>: Is there any justification for the commonly upvoted belief that war with North Korea will be any smoother than war with Iraq?