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It's Getting Close to the Point of Nuking North Korea


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59 minutes ago, fortyofforty said:

I have stated often it is a bad situation, one that took decades of hand-wringing and empty threats to develop.  Trump inherited a huge mess.

I agree, and sadly, we can't blame just the Democrats for the situation. NK has been building up their nuclear capabilities for more than 30 years and both Democrat AND Republican administrations have chosen to pass the buck down to future Presidents.

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7 hours ago, tsmo1066 said:

 

The problem with this theory is that if a pre-emptive strike were made against NK, the North Koreans would most definitely NOT limit their nuclear and vast conventional/chemical/bio retaliation to just the United States. The whole NK military has standing orders that would dictate the annihilation of Seoul and anything in range that is an ally of the United States, and if the pre-emptive strike SUCCEEDS, "Lil Kim" won't be around anymore to countermand those orders or limit the retaliatory strikes that the fanatic loyalists in his top military ranks would carry out.

North Korea routinely makes it a point to test fire missiles by shooting them ACROSS the island of Japan just to drive this point home. He also regularly lobs shells into the DMZ just to remind Seoul that they are targeted as well. The military heads in Tokyo and Seoul have no illusions that should the proverbial $hit hit the proverbial fan, they will be subjected to massive civilian casualties. Should war appear inevitable, they can't, and won't, hide behind the illusion that NK is going to spare them.

 

That's actually the problem with any "solution", which leaves us in a box:  we can do nothing, no matter what North Korea does or doesn't do.  Our national policy has been a decades-long joke, with no teeth behind it.

North Korea could launch a limited attack on the United States or one of our allies and we could not do anything about it without risking all-out war.  It has killed hundreds.  It could easily kill several thousand.  The world is being held hostage, and every day that goes by, the hostage taker grows stronger and bolder.  Tanks and artillery.  Chemical weapons.  Biological weapons.  Atomic bombs.  Hydrogen bombs.  Medium-range missiles.  Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles.  Then trend is not our friend.

If we got hit by a dirty bomb, and believed the origin of the radioactive material was North Korea, do you think we'd respond with force against North Korea?  North Korea has already supplied radiological material to Libya, without a U.S. response.  North Korea is working closely with Iran on military technology.  If Iran wants one badly enough, it would have a nuclear weapon courtesy of North Korea.  Would we respond militarily against North Korea, if we discovered Iran obtains nuclear weapons?  What would we do if North Korea decided to sell ICBMs or biological weapons to Iran or Venezuela?  There are, as I have outlined, many ways North Korea can strike at us, directly and indirectly, and very few ways we can strike at them without risking millions of lives.  That is not a recipe for success.

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7 hours ago, Al Czervik said:

Send in Team America already.

When Sony marketed a movie depicting the attempted assassination of Kim, North Korea responded and we will likely never again see a movie mocking or showing Kim in a negative light.  Hollywood is gutless and is not known for taking risks, and no other studio wants to experience the Wrath of Kim.

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6 hours ago, fortyofforty said:

When Sony marketed a movie depicting the attempted assassination of Kim, North Korea responded and we will likely never again see a movie mocking or showing Kim in a negative light.  Hollywood is gutless and is not known for taking risks, and no other studio wants to experience the Wrath of Kim.

You have missed quite a few movies making fun of him since team America.

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