[Polybius]

South Korea is basically the biggest reason we can't go anything remotely aggressive or intimidating on N.K. The South has gotten all squishy after a generation of the US keeping them safe and warm at night and now, just like Europe, they have grown to resent the protect we have provided them. If it wasn't for the threat that N.K. would nuke Seoul as its first act in response to an offensive by us, we would have been able to send a buttload of JDAMS over to one of the glorious leaders regular parades and get rid of his entire leadership in about 10 seconds.

On the other hand, the U.S. cannot simply wait until N.K. develops the delivery systems to put Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast at the same risk that Seoul is in right now.

Better Seoul now than Seoul and the entire U.S. West Coast in the future.

It is time to get the U.S. ground troop "trip wires" out of South Korea and deal decisively with North Korea.

[Mr Rogers]

As I've said before - at some point, one of the rogue states will use a nuke against a modern country. Both europe and Japan are at higher risk than us, since a nuke missile would be more likely to malfunction and drop into the ocean if used against us.

At that point, the civilized world will erase the rogue state from the earth.

Until then, nothing significant will be done.

[Campion]

On the other hand, the U.S. cannot simply wait until N.K. develops the delivery systems to put Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast at the same risk that Seoul is in right now.

I don't think you understand.

He already has a delivery system that can target anywhere in the USA. It's called "one al-Qaeda suicide martyr and a rented Ryder truck".

NK is desperately poor, and will sell nukes to anyone with enough hard cash. If you work in lower Manhattan or central DC, I'd look at getting out soon.

We're in a world of hurt, thanks to the sink emperor and his band of feckless appeasers.