[LibertarianInExile]

"Yeah I'm so scared of all the horrible things that North Korea can do to us. What are they going to do?"

Not much, beyond vaporizing the entire city of Seoul and our servicemen there. But that's a pretty big deal to some of us.

[garbageseeker]

Seoul is more at risk of being leveled by 500 artillery pieces pointed at it.

[garbageseeker]

My dissertation on a artillery attack on Seoul:

On average a artillery piece can fire five rounds, and maybe dozens more before being destroyed by an air strike or hiding shelters. They may have even tubes in protected areas. This means at least several thousand rounds can be detonated in the city before air strikes can destroy them. Seoul can be completely destroyed in a matter of a half an hour. If they use chemical weapons the death toll would be compounded. There will be little warning because an shell is traveling a half a kilometer a second.

Neutralizing these artillery pieces would be a top priority from U.S. aircraft in Guam and aircraft carriers.

[TexasPatriot8]

It's a big deal to me too obviously, don't know why you said it like that. The chances of that are pretty slim considering we have Anti missile systems set up there too. And he knows full well what would happen to him if that happened. Pyong Yang would be a memory within an hour if he did that, but I doubt any missile he launched would reach Seoul.

And I was speaking of conventional retaliation he would threaten. Conventionally, he couldn't do squat.