[dfwgator]

Get some!

[therightliveswithus]

Interesting to say the least

[ScottinVA]

If at all possible, they’d be well advised to wait until we have different leadership here in the U.S.

[Free Vulcan]

Thoughts?

[Domalais]

Implausible bordering on ridiculous. North Korean military power is based on two things: 1) special forces, and 2) massive concentrations of long range artillery.

NK's special forces, the largest such force in the world, are designed for fighting in the rear areas of the Republic of Korea (ROK) disrupting services, resupply, reinforcement, etc. They are a purely offensive force.

That leaves artillery as NK's hub of power and only defense/deterrent against a ROK first strike. Which is why it is prepositioned to cause maximum economic and civilian target damage against the Greater Seoul Metropolitan Area (GSMA). That's also why their ammo stockpiles are not large enough to fight a war; they only want/need enough to annihilate Seoul. I forget the exact numbers but projections are that hundreds of thousands of rounds would land in the GSMA every hour for the first 48 hours of any conflict.

Any kind of attack against NK's artillery assets would be a direct attack on the country's defense and regime's power. There's no way that KJI or his military would allow such an attack. The ROKs would be insane to retaliate unless they were committed to sacrificing their economy and fighting a full scale war.

[Pan_Yan]

While WikiLeaks-exposed cables last month indicated Beijing was also frustrated with the Kim regime's unpredictable brinkmanship -

Wikileaks didn't tell us anything about China, because only a moron (read State Department) would believe anything China tells them either publically or 'privately'.

[The Theophilus]

As part of this insane policy of re-engaging the former Soviet Union in yet another damned SALT treaty, we should define "disposing" of nukes that are over the quota as "giving them to South Korea" so that they may dispose of them as they see fit.

This should provide liberals with the wet-dream of weakening the security of the US and the globe, while giving the rest of us stuck on this train to hell some level of satisfaction that the nukes might actually be put to good use after all.