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I have a lot of trouble seeing how this tension could possibly be diffused peacefully.

• cuckcuckspruce 9y ago
  The alternative is likely nuclear war.
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  • TearsInTheRain 9y ago
    Maybe, I feel like we are going to try to just wipe their nukes. If we succeed, I doubt the US or China will go nuclear. We would probably seek china's ok before trying that if we haven't already gotten it. If NK keeps escalating their arsenal eventual we won't ask China and just do it.
    • synicalx 9y ago
      The problem is, any sort of strike against the North is unfathomably risky - they've basically got some 25 million South Koreans hostage, with their obscene number of conventional artillery pieces within spitting distance of the DMZ. If Kim decides the end is near, Seoul and anything near it is basically done for.
• synicalx 9y ago
  It's really a terrible situation, and I agree there's no way this is going to end well. Nuking NK will mean at best, an environmental and humanitarian disaster on scale we can't even comprehend, and at worse a full on nuclear exchange between the US and anyone who decides to retaliate which could realistically be one or both of China and Russia. The alternatives suck as well; try and take out JUST NK's nuclear capability, and hope that it works and that they don't retaliate by obliterating Seoul. Or try and decapitate the regime, hope it works, hope you don't miss anyone, and hope someone worse doesn't come to power. If the world lets them go and keep their nukes, what happens then? Would anyone stop them from invading the South if there was a risk of NK going nuclear in response?