[Black Agnes]

It’s the matter of plausible deniability. If the norks do it China and Russia both have clean hands. Who do we retaliate against, exactly?

The norks wouldn’t notice if we emp’d them. Any any significant non conventional attack on the norks would decimate south korea.

Not to mention the loss of 90% of the population of CONUS. We’d be off the world political map, probably forever. China, Russia, whoever, could just walk right into CONUS about 6m after such an attack. With little or no resistance and no radioactive no go zones either.

An EMP attack could put us at third world status for the next 2 generations. Possibly longer since we wouldn’t even have a population surplus to market as a labor force.

[laplata]

That’s exactly right.

I haven’t had the guts to read “One Second After” but people who have read it say it’s damned scary.

With the Demon in our White House, we’re sitting ducks in more ways than one.

[Pox]

If the norks do it China and Russia both have clean hands.

And of course those will be the exact statements that will come from the left. Of course, we all know better that Russia and China are quite complicit in such a scenario, but in the end, the cowards of the left will do nothing but perhaps surrender.

The proper response would be to render Pyongyang uninhabitable via a Thermonuclear warhead, and then mop up the country with conventional warfare.

If China doesn't like it and decides to "defend" their partner again, then it's time to take off the gloves and dance.

But, once again, the left will do nothing but surrender, and then this country will be in the midst of a civil war.

[Slambat]

“An EMP attack could put us at third world status for the next 2 generations. Possibly longer since we wouldn’t even have a population surplus to market as a labor force.”

In Texas we’d be down maybe a week or two. One emp? Third
world status? Sounds like global warming hype to me. Ike
came through Houston and wiped the place out. I don’t
remember FEMA doing kack. We dealt with loss of power, in
some places for over a month, and worked our way through it.
Nothing personal to you Black Agnes but I keep hearing all
this about one EMP and we’re all back to the stone age and I don’t buy it. Maybe 100 or 500 at once yea, but not just one?

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

China always plays good-cop, bad-cop with NK.

NK won’t do anything without China’s approval.

[kimtom]

“.....attack could put us at third world status for the next 2 generations....”

HUh, it would set us back, but not that long.
Yes we would be vulnerable to a secondary incursion, (or they would be “invited”, but The us military and unfortunately our ‘guvernmunt’ would still function as they are “hardened-shielded’ from EMP.)
we could retaliate against any nation invading us (if US wanted to that is)

But against a peon country like NORK, if we hit back it would bring China into it as they are NORK allies.

The real danger will come from our own Govt. inside CONUS after an attack....what will they do to us patriots???

[lentulusgracchus]

It’s the matter of plausible deniability. If the norks do it China and Russia both have clean hands. Who do we retaliate against, exactly?

Exactly. This is called "the borrowed knife strategy", and the knife-lender is nobody else but the Chinese. They started this crap from soup to nuts. Where do you think the Three Kims got their technology from?

Oh, and btw the Chinese are shoring things up quietly by sucking up to the Russians in a new anti-American entente. Oh, you didn't see that on LSM TV news? My bad, guess it didn't happen.

Oh, wait -- ChiCom CNN [Our corporate motto: "___ you, Joe, you die rill soon, Joe!"] says that it DID happen, the ChiComs are in fact holding military joint exercises with the Sovs -- er, make that, "Putinsky Russia".

So I guess the Chinese have to have some credibility about what they're doing with their own military.