Bannon was right: there is no military option for NK unless you’re willing to send millions of South Koreans to their deaths. The decision boils down to roll the dice on a nuclear NK or accept the same death toll of a nuclear attack from artillery strikes into Seoul.
The only strategy I could see working was if you could evacuate Seoul beforehand (where you’d put all those people, who knows). Tell Kim he can shell an empty city and face instant annihilation or surrender and we’ll give him protective custody on some remote island for the rest of his life.
No need for any military intervention or military strike.
Send in the Delta Force and take out Kimmy and his top military generals.
That’s why we have highly trained special forces.