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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Millions of lives have been at stake for 30+ years, that is the N Korea gambit, we hold a gun pointed at Seoul and you will not dare confronting us. Meanwhile they have continued their nuclear program, built A bombs and H bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles that could kit S. Korea, Japan and the US. In addition they are demonstrating that they work for the world to see, thus opening the door for becoming an arms dealer to Iran and ISIS. That is the reality and has nothing to do with Trump, or Obama, or Bush or Clinton.
The strategy that we have taken for the last 30 years had to include a line that N Korea could not cross. If they didn't cross it when they demonstrated a working intercontinental ballistic missile and working nuclear bombs then there is no line and the previous policy was complete BS.
Since it is becoming very obvious that we will have to resolve this militarily and since that will certainly result in horrendous losses in N Korea and very likely in S Korea as well it is critical that the US not be the one to start it. However, the worst case scenario is that N Korea decides on their own when to start because that will involve the most amount of nuclear missiles as well as ordinance aimed at Seoul. Instead, if we can provoke them to fire a missile at one of our planes that is sufficient for us to respond and within 30 minutes we could wipe out their offensive capabilities and every missile. That is the highest probability of preventing nuclear missiles from being fired and should result in the least amount of damage to Seoul.
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Again, you've mentioned wiping out their missiles (if that is possible, I don't think it is because they don't know where they are) but forgetting about the artillery and other conventional weapons which are the bigger danger. Remember Kim does not need nuclear weapons or missiles to take over Seoul, the nuclear capability is to threaten Japan and the US directly.