Due to the inherent plurality of views in a democracy, there is no unanimity in ROK on how best to deal with the DPRK. Opinion effectively falls into three camps: those who believe the DPRK should be left to collapse and the ROK should maintain a tough defensive policy; those who believe in a form of critical engagement with reciprocal action demanded for each step taken forward by the ROK; and those who wish to follow through with the Sunshine Policy. Many in the ROK believe that the DPRK’s bellicosity is essentially a survival strategy and that providing it with guarantees of survival will modify that behaviour. Those who follow this line have opposed the tougher position of the United States and have urged bilateral negotiations. There are of course apocalyptical concerns in the ROK of unilateral US military action. In such an eventuality, Seoul would be devastated and any conflict and all out war could erase the immense economic achievements of the past 50 years. The government of President Roh Moo-hyun has all but ruled out any military strike against the DPRK, saying it would be “very, very dangerous.”