Question about North Korea

[sqlbullet]

So....If we go to war with them.

Is it self-defense/preservation of freedom?  Or are be beating up the special needs kid that didn't know better than to talk trash?

[s0nspark]

This comes to mind...



Seriously, though, the whole situation there seems absurd - and you can't really have a rational dialog with a crazy person. If there is any bite to his bark then he'd have to be dealt with. One madman with nuclear capabilities is one too many.

[EdMc]

Perhaps he's just stirring things up so his people will forget that they are starving to death. The nukes and the range of his rockets are the wildcards. We still have a US Army division on the 38th Parallel plus S Korean troops.....air support, I don't know. Hopefully he's not as crazy as he acts but this is what you get with weak foreign policy administration.

[s0nspark]

this is what you get with weak foreign policy administration.

That is putting it nicely...

[The_Shadow]

[DM1906]

They know it would be a losing battle against the U.S., or its allies.  Having one bomb, or a dozen, doesn't match the thousands (not including the ones we don't talk about) of effective weapons available to us.  They can't sustain a conventional war w/o China.  China won't engage, risking the loss of their primary benefactor (Walmart, etc.).  N. K. knows all this.  He's a nut, to be sure, but I don't think he's suicidal.  If he had a winning hand, it would have been played long before he was born.  Stand by for the sanctions, followed very closely by the appeasement phase.

Read the book, "The Mouse that Roared".  The Kims did.