I’ve been saying for months on this forum, the way to deal with this problem is to place a modern version of the Pershing II in both South Korea and Japan.
About 50 each.
Combined with the M1003 TEL, a missile can be transported, two at a time, via either the C-5 or C-17 transport aircraft. They can roll off and be ready to launch in an hour.
With an 1,100 mile range and an 85KT warhead we could have 100 super-fast and super-accurate (30M CEP) ready to hit either Beijing or Pyongyang in 24 hours. But not enough to be a real threat to Russia.
Once we put them in place, Beijing would be HAPPY to neutralize Norklandia.
It’s just a matter of will on our part.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II
“(30M CEP)”
The joke used to be that you could balance a cigarette on the nose of a Pershing, and it could stick it back into the pack, a thousand miles away.
“I’ve been saying for months on this forum, the way to deal with this problem is to place a modern version of the Pershing II in both South Korea and Japan.”
Unfortunately, the appeasement crowds in both South Korea and Japan are very powerful. Convincing them to host Pershings would extremely difficult.
China has said it will retaliate in kind to whomever sends fallout into their northern provinces. Prevailing winds pretty much guarantee any strike would send fallout into China.
A strike on Beijing would result in the obliteration on a number of US cities at the minimum from a Chinese retaliatory ICBM strike.