When the balloon goes up, have in the air some 120 heavy bombers each with 80,000 to 100,000 lbs of GPS bombs to hammer every known and suspected NK artillery piece within the range of Seoul and other population centers. That’s about 150 ~ 200 bombs (Mk82s with GPS units) per bomber. North Korea would get the sobering.
When was the last war that was won by air power alone? Answer NONE. Germany was defeated when over run by two armies. Korea was not, in fact the war is not over, just a stalemate. Vietnam, how many thousands of tons of bombs did we drop? Did we win. Iraq, airpower softened them up but the war was “won” on the ground.
We do not have a large enough army now, nor the means to get one to Korea quick enough to “win” a war with the NORKS and presumably with the Reds without use of nukes. Once that balloon goes up, its over IMO.
My advice, starve the bastard out with a blockade and financial means and shoot down anything he launches.
With the CBU-105 the USAF and USN aircraft could cover the entire length of the DMZ...3 miles inward...in a day.
They could move north the next 3 miles the following day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBU-97_Sensor_Fuzed_Weapon