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Indeed. We don't know what Chubby Napoleon and his army is capable of. Not much I guess in a conventional way, but massive bombings of Seoul, maybe poison gas, who knows.
A full-scale war is probably not possible, as the civilian cost would be too great. And you can't really say to the North Koreans that "you brought this upon yourselves".
But neither can they be allowed to have ICBM's with nuclear warheads. Experts say that they might have at least somewhat operational ones in 5 to 10 years.
Japan and South Korea are against a preemptive strike against North Korea because they would be the ones to bear the brunt of any retaliation - although as you say, we have no idea what they are capable of in conventional terms, and we don't know if they are capable of nuking Seoul - but nobody wants to find out.
Japan and South Korea are against a preemptive strike against North Korea because they would be the ones to bear the brunt of any retaliation - although as you say, we have no idea what they are capable of in conventional terms, and we don't know if they are capable of nuking Seoul - but nobody wants to find out.
I guess we will see.
Exactly, but the tricky part is that in 10 years time, NK's capability to threaten Tokyo can be much bigger. It seems there's no good options.
Yeah, it's a difficult situation - but it's one that needs the cooperation of all parties involved - those parties being the US, China, South Korea and Japan. The latter two in particular are the ones most at risk and are understandably concerned about military conflict, while China doesn't want its border flooded with Korean refugees.
This problem can't be solved by acting unilaterally imo, and priority must be given to civilian welfare. A full-scale war in the region would be devastating.
China is in a key position, if it stops all aid to NK, it might be game over.
But scary that all parts of the conflict seem to think that the current status quo is the best option, despite 25 million North Koreans living in a terrible society.
I'm intrigued as to what will happen.. this can't end well.
I don't want a North Korea with intercontinental nuclear warheads, but I also don't want a war..
The first few tests are almost certain to be failures, but once they have that technology then anything is possible, they're probably just a few years away from it now
Agree.
Must be stopped before they become successful with their ICBMs.
Crazy thing is NK is a very poor country, GDP estimated at only about 22 billion dollars,
mid sized US cities have a higher GDP. Every penny must be going into missiles.
US could easily flatten NK but have to be careful....China ...even Russia.
Take out his missile infrastructure and make sure to minimize civilian casualties.
China is in a key position, if it stops all aid to NK, it might be game over.
But scary that all parts of the conflict seem to think that the current status quo is the best option, despite 25 million North Koreans living in a terrible society.
Best option imo would be to remove the current regime and allow China to implement something. Let it essentially be a vassal state of Beijing. Of course, China is far from perfect when it comes to human rights, but it would be a big improvement on what exists now, and the nuclear risk would be neutralised.
But removing the regime would need cooperation between the US and China.
Best option imo would be to remove the current regime and allow China to implement something. Let it essentially be a vassal state of Beijing. Of course, China is far from perfect when it comes to human rights, but it would be a big improvement on what exists now, and the nuclear risk would be neutralised.
But removing the regime would need cooperation between the US and China.
For sure. Without China propping up NK they would be done already.
China is the key, either they take it over....or South Korea takes it over with
China's blessing.
God knows how the NK population would react in such a scenario.
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