Posted on 10/06/2017 5:14:46 PM PDT by Enlightened1
A US military assault on North Korea could prompt a last gasp retaliatory nuclear attack by Pyongyang on Seoul and Japan killing as many as 3.8 million people, according to a new analysis of the destructive potential of Kim Jong-un arsenal.
Donald Trump has repeatedly warned that all options remain on the table – including the use of force – in dealing with the North Korean threat.
However, analysts say the US is hamstrung by Pyongyang’s growing weapons stockpile and the fact that major population centres lie well within its range.
A detailed analysis by 38 North, a programme at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, has crunched the numbers, based on North Korea’s likely arsenal of as many as 25 weapons with possible yields of up to 250 kilotons, of the sort tested last month.
Using population density figures and blast radius estimates, Michael Zaguruk, calculated that a single detonation over Seoul could kill almost 800,000 people and over Tokyo would kill almost 700,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
NK, do your worst, the SK, Japs, and the left coasters can take anything u can dish out.
“If Hitler had been attacked early on, he was prepared to stand down with little gain. But we know what happened.”
And let’s remember that was in the late 1930’s. This situation is orders of magnitude greater than Hitler. I vote for starving the Norks to death. Better them than any of the rest of us.
“Presidents Clinton, Bush, and Obama all kicked the can on down the road.”
DO, you left out Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Ford, Jimmah, Ronnie and Boosh #1. And of course the UN who was in the middle of the negotiations that partitioned the Korean Peninsula. In 1950, someone should have said “we can’t leave this mess unfinished, then finished it.”
“WWIII right around the corner...in my lil ol pinion.”
I don’t think he’ll pull the trigger. He knows that Trump would nuke him back to the stone age. On the other hand why are we seeing an upsurge in Chinese spies here unless they know something is going to happen?
The military would know if a Nuke was moved..
Not necessarily. They can be hard to detect from orbit or fly-over distances.
Several million killed? That isn’t much compared to the 100,000,000+ murdered by lefties last century.
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