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Developing a small enough warhead housed in an ICBM system to accurately target a U.S city - any U.S city is far from becoming a reality for North Korea and I think the U.S would easily countermand that threat... A more realistic fear should be N.K selling something crude in terms of a nuclear device and having it detonating somewhere in the U.S by say a radical and fundamentalist group with a history of actually attacking U.S territory is a far more worrysome and realistic prospect.
Bahahahahahahahaha NORTH KOREA? Ooooh I'm so scared. America would blow NK off the map and if China wants it to we'd have about 600 Patriot missiles for them too. Now china knows they don't want to be apart of this NK plan. Once china backs out (which they will) NK will be screwed.
Disproportionate retaliation? A plane flies into a US building and the Americans spent a decade bombing two entire nations with 50-million civilians into the stone age.
North Korea has been there for more than a half a century, and they haven't so much as kicked dirt into the face of a 97 pound weakling.
Well except for the on and off shelling of disputed islands, the sinking of the South Korean ship Cheonan, and the frequent small arms exchange across the DMZ that has left hundreds or thousands dead since the ceasefire.
There was also the kidnapping and murder of Japanese citizens in the 90s and a kidnapping of a director so he could make a movies for the king. If defectors are to be believed, the imprisonment of citizens in brutal camps is another one.
No country's innocent. But North Korea is really not innocent. They're holding their own people ransom for prizes from the rest of the world.
Totally hypothetical vote in your poll, but Seattle (really the whole Puget Sound region) would be in danger. It's home to the Navy's entire Pacific Fleet of nuclear subs, a large (no one really knows how large) Navy weapons depository, Navy Base Kitsap and Everett, Joint Base Lewis-McChord (Army and Air Force, one of the largest military bases in the U.S. now), Naval Air Station Whidbey, and almost all of Boeing's manufacturing.
I would say SF. Don't ask me why I just get feeling that would be the target.
But anyway, this would never happen. North Korea is not that stupid. If they did nuke a U.S. city, do you know what the reprucssions would be? You can bet that the U.S., Japan, South Korea and several EU nations would bomb the s*** out of that NK. Even China is not too happy with them at the moment and would support actions by the U.S., Japan and South Korea.
Only one that I can see defending NK at the moment would be Russia. Japan and South Korea should are the ones that should be nervous, but the U.S.? Nah.
Seattle would get hit....though they'd be aiming for San Francisco.
Watch, it hits Vancouver, B.C...
They'd most likely aim for LA. Huge emotional toll on top of actual causalities; huge symbolic hit against Hollywood; second biggest city in the USA; and, the largest community of overseas/ethnic Koreans in the world.
The only country I think that could become an empire is Japan. The ONLY reason they cant is because they dont have enough land, and their not diverse at ALL. If the US and Japan had same land size it would be CRAY!
Japan WAS an extremely powerful empire, and then the USA defeated that empire in a nuclear war and banned it from ever again having a military, and helped foster a culture of pacifism. Japan has a declining population, which removes the pressure for imperialism, and all of the cultural structures that promoted empire are also now gone. The Japanese Empire is dead and buried and never coming back (thank god).
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