Posted on 08/01/2017 6:35:43 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
The Norks have 14,000 artillery pieces that can hit Seoul in minutes. Those get to be #1 on the hit list. Any attack on NK won’t be to slow them down, it will be to finish them off and bring the Korean war to a conclusion.
North Korea is always on high alert for war; their entire society is built around the concept.
The math of a war with North Korea is simple. Can we take out command and control before their artillery levels Seoul and kills a few hundred thousand South Koreans?
In reality, all a nuclear arsenal does is escalate the stakes of the mutually assured destruction that already exists on the peninsula.
NK can’t win a war. It’s just a matter of how many South Koreans and Americans (and maybe Chinese and Japanese) they take with them.
Shouldn't be too hard to make him run out of other people's money.
You’re right. N. Korea can’t win a war. It will have to be a 21st century blitzkrieg on multiple targets simultaneously to take them out before thaey can get untracked. Shock and Awe redux times 20.
War plans with NK have existed since there was a NK.
I was involved on a wargame scenario with some pretty high-tech (for the time; even better now?) at Fort Hood in 1998 or 9. For those needing historical context, this was when PrezBubba and the Hag were figuring ways to distract from assorted shenanigans. As far as I know, the King* of NK hadn’t popped any atoms or shot off anything bigger than his mouth.
*Yeah, well, what do YOU call an hereditary autocrat?
North Korea and Communist China have been at war with the United Nations since 1950. The cease fire did not end that war. We as part of the United Nations are still at war with them.
Allowing the ChiComs into the U.N. was a great victory for them. An even greater victory has been the destruction of or economy by shifting our manufacturing to them.
Trump may be “leaking” this on purpose. Just like the clear launch of Patriot missiles and bunker busters, eaelier. Sending a message.
My understanding is that the NK artillery is largely protected from air assault.
I don’t even know what options there really are. Paju has half a million people and is about 6 miles away from the DMZ. You can’t use nukes.
Yep.
And Britain.
One wargamed an invasion...someplace there’s a Prince of.
“No like Trump said if there have to be thousands to die, they die in Korea peninsula, not here.”
Sure, but as a practical matter we cannot go to war in NK and not have a plan to minimize the attack that would be mounted on SK. And, it will a tall order to completely wipe out all the installed artillery and missiles along the 38th Parallel. I guess the open question is, do we risk simply taking out KN’s missile and nuclear facilities, or do we have to bomb Pyongyang at the same time, and the DMZ stuff.
Linda Graham needs to stop talkng.
There are no secret ways to attack someone. It’s already been in the works for years and there are dozens of ways to do it. And there are no surprises.
There are two main ways to attack Korea and shut down their threat.
1) The offshore option: The United States launches Tomahawk cruise missiles from a Navy ship or submarine. This is the least risky option since it doesn’t involve traversing North Korean territory, and would resemble Trump’s strikes against the Syrian military for using chemical weapons, but there’s no guarantee that North Korea would refrain from retaliating.
2) The aerial option: U.S. stealth bombers or fighter aircraft conduct air strikes over North Korea. Such an approach is more conducive to military escalation than the first option. The North Korean government knows that U.S. bombers are capable of carrying nuclear weapons, and the United States might need to take out North Korean air defenses to successfully deploy some of these planes. Even if the U.S. operation is limited in scope, North Korea may not interpret it that way.
There is also a third which has already probably been put into practice. We have been trying to hack into their computer system to take out their launch capacity. And if we do, they will be very limited in their attack capacity.
According to everything I can find, Korea has sub launch capacity. But very few that can do it. And if our intel is sound, Russia hasn’t delivered an ICBM to them that can hit the US except for Hawaii.
rwood
Naw, do not believe this. Still think the many of the leaks are via technology.
Aren’t you SUPPOSED TO BE PREPARED FOR ANY CONTINGENCY????
All this concerning NK seems more like a diversion from Iran.
McCain is leaking again
Maybe that's part of President Trump's plan. Tell different secrets to different staff members, wait and see what secret is leaked. Isolate and dump the leaker.
The thing about a war with North Korea, there's going to be painful sacrifices. Just hope we can pull back many of our troops from South Korea and the area before initiating an attack on North Korea. It's a given that South Korea will be devastated by the North if hostilities break out; no way to avoid that, just hope we can pull our troops out. I think we should blockade North Korea and starve them while pulling our troops from the peninsula. A blockade is the least painful option until shooting starts.
Not to mention landmines on the border and tunnels into SK.
Their subway system in underground.....so are the “palaces”.
We need MANY MORE “Bunker Busters” and “MOABS”.
Nice scare headline, but it’s just meaningless Lindseying.
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