Quote:Dartz wrote:Actually it's case of what do the NK's have left to lose if they do pop one off and it lands in either Seoul, Tokyo or in Guam (in the case of an IRBM). The regime collapses and refugees pour into China. And no more Kim dictatorship. Hyperbole? I call it worse case planning. Bush II did the same thing (kicked off a war) for manufactured reasons. Trump doesn't have to manufacture an excuse to go bomb the NK's into the stone age. The NK regime is providing it.
I think we're into hyerbole here. The idea that a North Korean missile might actually reach a target that far, thus far, seems laughable. You almost hope they woul fire one off, because it's pretty much guaranteed to malfunction somewhere along they way and do nothing more than irradiate some fish.
And that's one less kiloton warhead that can be used against South Korea.
The big question with nuclear war in North Korea is how to respond in a way that doesn't even slightly risk bringing China in. Because then its all into the guts of World War III.
In a weird sort of way, it almost works in Noth Korea's favour to try pop one off because a 'sane' US administration would have to worry about China's reaction, so it can afford to go over the edge without loosing too much and maybe understanding that the world knows that. America has to wonder about what the rest of the world thinks about it before creating Lake Pyongyang.
__________________
Into terror!, Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell