We will take out fat boy as a very very last resort. It will be awhile. Problem is that thousands and thousands of SoKo’s could perish. Then what to do with a leaderless North Korea?
“We will take out fat boy as a very very last resort. It will be awhile. Problem is that thousands and thousands of SoKo’s could perish. Then what to do with a leaderless North Korea?”
The fatboy has been making threats against south Korea for 50 years, its highly unlikely he will ever risk being crushed by caring thou with them.
He wants money and attention, so he can keep building his capabilities until the day he imagines he can actually win the war.
Thanks to his own disastrous socialist failures we can easily assure that day will never come by arming South Korea and Japan with their own nuclear weapons. Thus demonstrating with or without the USA being scared into neutrality as he hopes to achieve, Japan and south Korea will stand up to him on their own.
All that said the real game is not North Korea, but China. Who is more than likely the real puppet master, and the reason there is a North Korea.
Arming Japan and South Korea with their own nuclear weapons will put China in the same pickle as North Korea. Most importantly seriously limiting China’s tactical options against either nation in future confrontations for regional hegmently over the much needed resources of the East China Sea.
A conflict China is no doubt hoping to accomplish in the same way as the South China sea, by keeping the USA largely out of the conflict having no stake to fully throw in behind ether side.
But this is critical to both South Korea and particularly Japan who depends upon the sea for much of its food, and most of its trade. North Korea can and should be used as a Proxy to rearm both theses countries to stand up for themselves and their resources against the real threat China.